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Title: The Writings of a Savage by Paul Gauguin, Wayne Andersen, Eleanor Levieux, Paul Gaugin, Daniel Guerin ISBN: 0-306-80700-9 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

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Summary: Refinement of artistic work through multiple castings.
Comment: The line that has always remained fixed in my mind was Gauguin's comment
on the refinement of a work. I think on a very basic level, to simply make a primary statement and move on has a very satisfying feeling to it. Miles Davis, among others, was fond of one takes because there is a spirit that is captured in that take, often lost on recurrent ones because of increased expectations, abstraction of an "ideal", and trying to recall of the "good stuff" while dismissing the "bad". Gauguin's work and life capture this idea quite well, and he voices a call-to-arms by bringing to light this notion of the non-refinement of the work. In Japanese ink calligraphy, the calligrapher has but one chance to draw to the rice paper; the live jazz improvisation must consider ALL of the performance to be part of the statement. It is a further comment against the hyperabstraction of Western artistic ideals, psuedo-ideals, that canonize relative cultural ideals and discard that which is considered non-beatiful or non-meaningful.