Racontars De Rapin

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FRENCH TEXT Racontars de Rapin [Tales of an amateur] by Paul Gauguin Racontars de Rapin was written by the painter Paul Gauguin in 1902, a year before his death. Written for publication in the Mercure de France, but rejected by its editors, it is a bitter polemic - detailed and often personalised - denouncing art critics and their failure to understand contemporary trends in art. "The artist has to look to the future, whereas the so-called educated critic is only educated about the pastthe painter is a slave neither to the past nor to the present.This edition illustrates the Racontars with monochrome reproductions of ten drawings and woodcuts by Gauguin. Paperback in generally excellent condition.

19.99 GBP