Gauguin's Skirt
by Eisenman, Stephen F
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0500017662
- ISBN 13
- 9780500017661
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Cloth, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/top edge. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear. Another copy available. "Gauguin's Skirt is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late nineteenth century, and colonialism new and old. It is concerned with Paul Gauguin's practices as an artist and with the practice of daily life in fin de siecle Polynesia. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, Gauguin's Skirt enters the domains of biography and mystery." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Exotic scenarios; Sex in Tahiti; Death in the Marquesas; Primitivism and difference.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 098078
- Title
- Gauguin's Skirt
- Author
- Eisenman, Stephen F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0500017662
- ISBN 13
- 9780500017661
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genre & Subject / Erotic; Movements / Post-Impressionism; Pacific / Oceanic, Aboriginal;
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