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PAUL GAUGUIN

Scope|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites 

Scope: Gauguin was a French painter who created over 600 posters and paintings. He spent several years in Tahiti where he focused primarily on woodcuts of exotic subjects featuring bright, flat colors.

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
 
OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF N 31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art

REF N 5300.I 45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists

 

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Ellridge, Arthur. Gaugin and the Nabis: Prophets of Modernism. Paris: Terrail, 1995.

Gauguin, Paul. Gauguin by Himself. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Hanson, Lawrence. The Noble Savage: A Life of Paul Gaugin. London: Arrow, 1960.

Matthews, Nancy Mowll. Paul Gaugin: An Erotic Life. New Haven: Yale University 
Press, 2001.

Sweetman, David. Paul Gaugin: A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Open Access Journals in Arts & Architecture

Open Access Journals in History of Arts

Open Access Journals in Visual Arts

WEB SITES 

Art History Network 
http://www.arthistory.net/

The Artists.org
http://www.the-artists.org/

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

 

Updated 08/24/2007