Avant-Garde Gambits 1888-1893: Gender and the Color of Art History (WALTER NEURATH MEMORIAL LECTURES) by Pollock, Griselda - 1993

Paperback. Very Good.

New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Hardcover. Fine. Green slipcase and covers, gold lettering on spine. 64 pp illustrations. Part of Series Walter Neurath memorial lectures. "In the late 1880s Gauguin, Van Gogh and Bernard, fledgling members of the subculture we call the avant-garde, abandoned Paris, the capital of modernity, to seek out in rural Brittany, Provence - and later in Tahiti - what Van Gogh called "a purer nature of the countryside." Griselda Pollock challenges art history's usual interpretations of this search in the distant and exotic regions by arguing that these artists were cultural colonizers. They exhibited the modern tourist's attachment to home - modern Paris and its art worlds - while being fascinated by what they imagined was a pre-modern "other." "Through a thorough textual and social reading of Gauguin's 1892 painting of his Tahitian wife, Manao Tupapau, the author proposes a new theory about the avant-garde as a series of gambits, a game of reference, deference and… Read More

London,, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Very good in very good minus dust jacket. Very slight toning to edges of pages, owner's inscription at front pastedown endpaper. Slight dust mark to bottom edge of boards. Slight shelfwear to dust jacket & very slight pen impression to front of dust jacket & small price label at rear of dust jacket. Binding tight & text clean and unmarked throughout.. 8vo. Pp: 80. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine in publisher's white and green dust jacket with black lettering at spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. A publication of the twenty-fourth Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames & Hudson.ISBN: 0500550255

8vo. dustwrapper. 80pp. 50 photographs and other illustrations. some small marks on wrapper otherwise a good copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.