Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Fine Art Series)

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Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 24 black-and-white illustrations.

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Excellent translation........2005-09-09

Very readable translation. This is not the best edition if you want good reproductions of drawings. But in terms of getting a good text for a good price it's great.

I'm not really going to review the book itself as I assume most people who are here know that this was Gauguin's attempt to put together a what he hoped would be a best selling travelogue that would promote his art. He was hoping to cash in on the success of Pierre Loti's best seller the Marriage of Loti which was set in exotic Tahiti. It never made any money, but this is mostly because of it's idiosyncratic style. But for anyone interested in Gauguin's Tahitian experience it's great. Also check out his intimate journals which came out posthumously and cover also his life before Tahiti.

It's actually an experimental novel.......2002-09-15

Typically considered a journal or memoir, Gauguin's book is in fact an early type of experimental multimedia novel. Thematically, Gauguin burlesques Pierre Loti's "Marriage of Loti", while structurally he interleaves narrative with his own highly-inventive Post-impressionist woodcarvings. It's a fine book: Gauguin could have been a great novelist, if he weren't already busy.

A Unique Opportunity.......2002-01-26

Though you may quarrel with Guaguin tactics or motivations, his art stands alone--brilliant, moving, subtle. It is always intriquing to hear the voice of a master painter and "Noa, Noa," affords that opportunity.

Noa Noa.......1996-07-18

Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift. This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition) Other recommended travel/discovery books: Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb. Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb. Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb. Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner. The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George) Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb. The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber

Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin

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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the captivating Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, Noa Noa assumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist.

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Paul Gauguin history.......2007-09-21

This was very interesting reading just before going to the South Seas. Wonderful to see the islands as he saw them and described them in this journal. Well worth reading!

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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left Europe to spend two years in Tahiti, where he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings. But he also created another masterpiece that has languished in obscurity for nearly 100 years: a detailed, entertaining journal and the sensuous woodblock prints and sketches made to accompany it. In this exquisitely designed edition, Chronicle Books is proud to publish together for the first time the evocative text and richly colored illustrations of Gauguin's Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the beautiful Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, Noa Noa now assumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist.

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Understanding Gauguin.......2002-10-25

This is a lovely book... and, brief though it is, helped me to understand more about Gauguin's reasons behind his actions. I read it at a perfect time - when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY was holding one of their most important exhibits on Gauguin and featured his wood cuts. It's a colourful, passionate and painful journey.

A Great Little Book.......2000-12-07

This is a great book detailing a few pages from his journal. It has great wood-cut reprints and is a quick read. It puts you into the spirit of Tahiti.

Noa Noa [a journal of the South Seas] (Noonday paperbacks)

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Noa Noa a Journal of the South Seas
Paul Gauguin
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Gauguin's journal of the south seas

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Paul; Translated By: Theis, O. F. Gauguin
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Recreate the unmistakable style of Art Nouveau with 20 stunning glass painting projects inspired by celebrated artists of the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau period.

These fabulous projects, for personal use, decorative display or to give as gifts, draw on the work of key artists of the period 1890 to 1930, including William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William De Morgan, Klimt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Walter Crane, Charles Annesley Voyse and Clarice Cliff. All the basic tools and materials to complete the projects are explained in detail, while the basic techniques are comprehensively covered, demonstrated through illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

Each project is detailed using step-by-step instructions and photography with a styled picture of the finished piece providing inspiration and further guidance. An extensive motif library provides templates for the designs, ideal for the beginner, and more experienced glass painters will love the challenge of the more complicated designs. Hints and tips are even given for adapting the motifs to suit any project.

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A highly recommended do-it-yourself hobby guide.......2003-10-08

Glass painting experts Alan Gear and Barry Freestone effectively collaborate in Art Nouveau Glass Painting to offer aspiring glass painters twenty superbly presented, step-by-step projects in glass-painting that are vividly attractive yet simple to finish. Full color photographs combine with detailed instructions for crafting a mosaic-effect mirror, a frosted thistle vase, and iridescent lily card, and more, comprise this fun, specialized, hands-on arts craft and highly recommended do-it-yourself hobby guide.

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Outlaw of Gor (Chronicles of Counter-Earth, Volume 2)

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The Quest Continues

EXILE'S RETURN

The adventure continues

Early books are the best in Gor Series

Outlaw of Gor: (#2)
John Norman
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Outlaw of Gor 1967.......2007-08-31

Book 2 of the Gor series.

Plot Kernel - At the end of Tarnsman of Gor, Tarl Cabot had fallen in love and married the High Caste woman Talena, daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and then, to his great sorrow, was returned to Earth by the mysterious and powerful Priest-Kings of Gor. Now, seven years later, Tarl is allowed to return to Gor. [Details of how these two manuscripts written by Cabot have come available for publication are accounted for in the beginning of this book.] But Gor has changed. In accordance with the incomprehensible will and power of the never seen Priest-Kings, who are said to dwell high in the Sardar Mountains, the City of Ko-ro-ba, Tarl's city, has been utterly destroyed, and its people scattered. His father and his beloved Talena are gone [and do not appear in this novel except as brief memories]. Seeking an explanation for the destruction of Ko-ro-ba, and clothed and accoutered as an Outlaw of Gor, rather than bearing the insignia of a city, Tarl sets out for the Sardar Mountains, and spends the night in Tharna, the one city of Gor ruled by women. Falsely implicated in a plot to overtake Lara the Tatrix of Tharna, Tarl is thrown into slavery upon her command. He leads a revolt and is once again free. As he continues his travels to Sardar he encounters slavers and buys a girl, not yet branded, to free her. [Here, after Tarl's slavery has shown us how male slaves are treated in Tharna, are two chapters, 200 pages into the novel, where the Gorean institution of female slavery is given some attention by the author.] Tarl's purchase turns out to be Lara, who had been usurped as Tatrix of Tharna and turned over to slavers. Before continuing to Sardar, Tarl intends to return Lara to Tharna that she might once again rule as Tatrix, with her now admitted appreciation for male dominance.

The Quest Continues.......2005-05-26

Tal!

In this we find our hero Tarl were we last saw him, back on planet Earth. For some mysterious reason, he had been taken away from his true home...the world called Gor, Gor being the same wording as Homestone. Yet the Priest Kings have their reasons, and one of them is to have him come back...thus he returns to Gor in this second book of the series. However, not all is well in the return, we find that Koroba is no more, we find that all the Free of Koroba have been scattered across the four winds...not to be allowed to stand next to another Free of Koroba. Further, the love of Tarl's life, the daughter of the Ubar of Ar herself, is gone, disappeared, somewhere out there. Still, these tragedies are not going to be taken for despair and Tarl will not allow himself to give up. That is not what a true Gorean, a true Man, a true Free, wills of Himself (or even Herself). With sword and with shield and with determination, Tarl sets out to cross the wild world of Gor to see what fate may have for him. In this follow up novel, Tarl goes through adventures dealing with the city of Tharna...where not is all as it seems. Power players behind the throne, so to speak, fight with deadly care to bring down the Ubara...the Tatrix... Laura...as Tarl delves deeper, he realizes that he will bring forth a new fate for both the city itself and Laura.

As this is the second novel, John Norman slowly but surely takes away the fabulous creatures one might find in a E. R. Burroughs novel (which is what this and Tarnsman is slightly, but not fully, akin to) and shows real world villains. Villains you may read about in European and Middle Eastern history. Again, there is a fierce dominance and submission equation here, but do not let it fool you. This is not some kind of Anne Rice erotica...in fact you rarely if ever even get a sex scene in any of the Gor books. Sensuality, yes. Pornography, no. Realize there is a big difference. It is important to understand this because one must realize that you can have beauty without being lewd and corse as many of the so called "pornography" magazines, books, videos, etc. Foolishness, I would rather have thoughts and possibilities instead of crase descriptions of what "he does and she does". That is not the way of John Norman and that is not the way of Gor. You can be playful, sensual, intimate, without being an idiot about it.

Please enjoy this book and my future explorations of the series.

Winds!

EXILE'S RETURN.......2004-07-06

Tarl Cabot's long exile was over. Again he was back on Gor, the strange world of Counter-Earth, where he had once been the proudest warrior and mightiest tarnsman of that savage planet. But nothing was as it had been. His home city of Ko-ro-ba was destroyed, razed until not one stone remained standing. His beautiful mate, Talena was dead or vanished. His family and friends were scattered across the globe. And Cabot was now declared an outlaw, with all men ordered to kill him on sight. His only chance was to find the strange Priest-Kings who ruled Hor and to submit himself to them. But Tarl was not about to submit!

The adventure continues.......2004-06-02

This book starts harsh and gives us an insight into the inhuman qualities of the priest-kings. However the general sense of adventure vs. an overindulgence in male dominance philosophy in the later books continues.

Tarl is searching for his family/friends and Talena and ends up in the city of Tharna. At first the female dominated society which is just not working seems a shallow tool to hide the author's disdain for female dominance, but after finishing the book it works out rather nicely. The escape from the silver mines was particularly well accomplished.

Some have critisized Norman's writing: there is a scene here which I thought proved the opposite. When Tarl and Thorn are fighting in the throne room and their reflections are in the water of a pool, their shadows fighting with them and all this is reflected in the golden mask of the girl watching them, I thought this brought the scene to life well.

Early books are the best in Gor Series.......2003-11-24

I read the Gor series as a boy in the 70's and early 80's. IMHO the series is most appealing to teenage boys. I recently pulled "Assassins of Gor" off the shelf one night while bored, and re-read it. I was shocked that there was no real sex, and only a handful of pages of philosophy and psychology that I had to skip over. The book was really excellent, although in a straight forward, uncomplicated sort of way. These are escapist novels, richly detailed, which immerse you in an exotic world, not real thinkers. My enduring memories were of the later books in the series, which were almost unreadable because whole chapters were devoted to philosophy and psychology.

I am not offended by the idea that it is natural and enjoyable for women to be submissive to men. Although I recognize it as wish fulfillment fantasy, still I consider it harmless, especially in such an obviously fictitious setting. I even found it mildly interesting the first time it was mentioned. It is the umpteenth repetition that I find boring. I just turn those pages, skipping ahead to the next action sequence. Speaking of wish fulfillment, I wish someone would edit the series, and re-publish it without these parts. Maybe Eric Flint could do it? He likes to edit, according to his afterword to "1633" and he's good at it. Of course, if you take the sex out of Gor you get Barsoom, and that story has already been written.

I looked on Amazon to see if there was anything new going on with the series, and there was. It is being reprinted, starting at the beginning, and at least 2 new books seem to be published, or at least in the works. I was disappointed though that Amazon didn't have the whole series listed under one easy to find heading. I guess there are, after all, millions of books and only so many Amazon employees. So I'm listing the series, in order, along with some brief info. Some of these books I haven't read, as noted.

1.) Tarnsman of Gor - 1966. Earthman, Tarl Cabot, goes to another planet, hidden on the opposite side of our sun, and becomes a master swordsman and Warrior. This is the book that is most like "Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which I highly recommend. Note - the 1966 copyright is held by John Lange, the author's real name.

2.) Outlaw... - 1967. Tarl Cabot returns to Gor, to find he's been outlawed.

3.) Priest-Kings... - 1968. Tarl Cabot goes to lair of Priest-Kings to clear his name.

4.) Nomads... - 1969. Tarl Cabot goes to Southern Plains, and meets Mongol type nomads.

5.) Assassin... - 1970. Tarl Cabot returns to Ar, greatest city-state on Gor. Note - this is the first copy I have by Del Rey books, and it has cover art by Boris. I may not like reading about the Gorean philosophy on sexual roles for men and women, but I can't get enough of Boris' artwork depicting it.

6.) Raiders... - 1971. Tarl Cabot goes to Port Kar, pirate capitol of scum and villainy, and learns the meaning of shame. More Boris art on the cover of the Del Rey edition.

7.) Captive... - 1972. A new character, Elinor Brinton, is captured on Earth and becomes a slave girl on Gor. The first time this is done, it may be slightly creative and a little interesting, but it is a radical departure from the earlier books and I consider it to be the beginning of the end. At least Tarl Cabot has a few pages at the end, to tie this book into the rest of the series. This is also the last book published by Ballantine books, which I think is significant in the content and direction of the rest of the series.

8.) Hunters... - 1974. Tarl Cabot goes to the Northern Forest and meets amazon type women. This seems to be the first time there was a break in John Norman's writing, undoubtedly related to his switch to Daw books as a publisher.

9.) Marauders... - 1975. Tarl Cabot goes to the land of the Norsemen and meets Viking type Marauders.

10.) Tribesmen... - 1976. Tarl Cabot goes to the Tahari desert.

11.) Slave Girl... - 1977. Earth girl Judy Thornton enslaved on Gor. Again. No Tarl Cabot at all.

12.) Beasts... - 1978. Tarl Cabot goes to the Arctic ice pack and meets Eskimo type people.

13.) Explorers... - 1979. Tarl Cabot goes to the equatorial rain forests.

14.) Fighting Slave... - 1980. Earthman Jason Marshall is enslaved and forced to fight in a pit on Gor.

15.) Rogue... - 1981. Jason Marshall wanders free on Gor.

16.) Guardsman... - 1981. Jason Marshall earns a homeland.

17.) Savages... - 1982. Tarl Cabot goes to the great plains and meets American Indian type savages. Note - If you like this, John Norman also wrote "Ghost Dance" in 1970, a similar type story about real American Indians. I'm impressed that he kept the writing schedule he did on the Gor novels, and still wrote other books on the side. He also wrote "Time Slave" in 1975.

18.) Blood Brothers... - 1982. Savages and Blood Brothers are a two-part set. Just recently read this conclusion to Savages. Brings closure to Ubar of the Skies.

19.) Kajira... - unread. Another Slave girl story.

20.) Players... - 1984. Tarl Cabot joins the Carnival. Cos goes to war with Ar.

21.) Mercenaries... - 1985. Tarl Cabot returns to Ar again to try to save it.

22.) Dancer... - unread. Another Slave Girl novel? This is where I stopped even looking in the bookstore.

23.) Vagabonds... - unread.

24.) Magicians... - 1988, unread.

25.) Witness... - 2002, unread. I read on amazon that this is a story about Marlenus with amnesia, told by a slave girl.

26.) Prize... - unread. This is not yet published.

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