The singulars.
| N° d'inventaire | 18881 |
| Format | 14x20.5 |
| Détails | 393 p. paperback. |
| Publication | Mercuès, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
During the hot summer of 1888, a community of painters took up residence in Pont-Aven, a picturesque village in Finistère. Among them were a young Belgian, Hugo Boch, from a wealthy industrialist family, and a certain Gauguin, a loud-mouthed autodidact who believed in his genius. They were part of the avant-garde movement that wanted to paint differently, see differently, and live differently. Hugo Boch was no longer so sure he wanted to continue painting: he experimented with photography, this nascent art. Above all, he maintained a diligent correspondence, and the letters exchanged between Brittany, Paris, and Brussels were full of anecdotes. A new wind was blowing at the end of the century, in the arts, but also in morals and techniques. All these explorers are daring, moving and sometimes funny, wild young people who would fight a duel to defend sunflowers painted by a Dutchman, a refugee in the South, whom many consider a madman and a dauber... In Les Singuliers, Anne Percin mixes historical figures and fictional characters to offer us a lively epistolary novel. It is a monumental painting, which captures the spirit of the times and brings it to life for us.
During the hot summer of 1888, a community of painters took up residence in Pont-Aven, a picturesque village in Finistère. Among them were a young Belgian, Hugo Boch, from a wealthy industrialist family, and a certain Gauguin, a loud-mouthed autodidact who believed in his genius. They were part of the avant-garde movement that wanted to paint differently, see differently, and live differently. Hugo Boch was no longer so sure he wanted to continue painting: he experimented with photography, this nascent art. Above all, he maintained a diligent correspondence, and the letters exchanged between Brittany, Paris, and Brussels were full of anecdotes. A new wind was blowing at the end of the century, in the arts, but also in morals and techniques. All these explorers are daring, moving and sometimes funny, wild young people who would fight a duel to defend sunflowers painted by a Dutchman, a refugee in the South, whom many consider a madman and a dauber... In Les Singuliers, Anne Percin mixes historical figures and fictional characters to offer us a lively epistolary novel. It is a monumental painting, which captures the spirit of the times and brings it to life for us.