Böcker av Sue Prideaux

*Gorgeously illustrated with 70 colour images*You wish to teach me what is within myself: learn first what is within you . . . I believe life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known how he struggled to sustain his artistry - from a career as a stockbroker in Paris to a door-to-door salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City to a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux reexamines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision - from his eccentric upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France, to the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene and meeting Mette - the woman who he would marry, to the formative encounters with Vincent Van Gogh and August Strindberg and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia. Prideaux draws from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family to conjure Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. This myth-busting work challenges us to see Gauguin anew.

Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream", hardly anyone knows much about the man. This book is the biography of Edvard Munch in English. It explores the events of his turbulent life and unerringly places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contexts.