Paul Gauguin and the complexity of the primitivist gaze

The article describes the complexity of Paul Gauguin’s primitivism in a philosophical, more precisely, phenomenological way. It focuses on the phenomenological gaze that, in all its complexity, is active in Gauguin. In his ‘Tahitian’ paintings, we encounter a double gaze: the individual gaze, as pai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruud Welten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2015-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/welten.pdf