Paul Gauguin : Qui trompe-t-on ici ?

Name: Paul Gauguin : Qui trompe-t-on ici ?
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Beneath the gilded ceilings of the Louvre, Gauguin hears the machinery of a world where art is bartered and genius reduced to figures. His pen catches fire, bites, strikes: he will not let the merchants of glory have the final word on the value of art. In this fierce yet exhilarating broadside, one question, sharpened like the tip of a brush, remains: who, here, is being deceived?

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At Pont-Aven and later at Le Pouldu, as Brittany pours its light into his canvases, Gauguin looks upon the art world with a fury waiting to erupt. Penniless, yet armed with a biting tongue, he takes aim at hollow prestige, the verdicts of critics, and the murky games that make and unmake reputations. The fortune promised for Millet's The Angelus becomes the spark that ignites a pamphlet in which the worth of a painting suddenly seems as fragile as the meaning of a word. Against auctions and honours, Gauguin sets another measure: that of vision, freedom, and the artist's truth. His pen, furious and venomous, cuts through celebrated names like a blade, turning art criticism into a battlefield. Published in Le Moderniste illustré in September 1889, Qui trompe-t-on ici ? reveals a Gauguin at his most incendiary and polemical-an artist who refuses to paint in obedient colours, and even less to write in tame words.

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Authors: Paul Gauguin

Publisher: L'Echoppe

Dimensions: 12 x 16

Publication year: 1996

Number of pages: 20

EAN: 9782840680673

Paul Gauguin : Qui trompe-t-on ici ?

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