{"product_id":"wild-thing-sue-prideaux-9780571365944","title":"Wild Thing","description":"A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR\nLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025\nWINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024\nWINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2024\nA vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin – and the first full biography in over thirty years – written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.\n'Scintillating.' FINANCIAL TIMES\n'Immaculate.' NEW STATESMAN\n'Phenomenal.' PROSPECT\n'A heroic rehabilitation.' THE TIMES\nPaul 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 that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.\nIn Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia.\nPrideaux conjures Gauguin’s visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist’s family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50274650292512,"sku":"9780571365944","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571365944.jpg?v=1768913112","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/wild-thing-sue-prideaux-9780571365944","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}