{"product_id":"faber-and-faber-ltd-faber-faber-wild-thing-a-life-of-paul-gauguin","title":"Faber And Faber Ltd. Faber Faber Wild Thing A Life of Paul Gauguin.","description":"*Gorgeously illustrated with 70 colour images*\n\nYou wish to teach me what is within learn first what is within you . . . I believe life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.\n\nPaul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.\n\nIn Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia.\n\nPrideaux conjures Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0571365949\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0571365949.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sue Prideaux\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50796769673413,"sku":"LFV.0571365949.VG","price":14.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0571365949-0.jpg?v=1792861730","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/faber-and-faber-ltd-faber-faber-wild-thing-a-life-of-paul-gauguin","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}