{"id":1168,"date":"2023-05-19T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/?page_id=1168"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:18:03","slug":"2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Archive: Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 June &#8211; 21 July 2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape-2\/selected-works\/\">Selected works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape-2\/about-the-project\/\">About the project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape__trashed\/charles-averys-project\/\">Charles Avery\u2019s &#8220;The Islanders&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/archive-previous-exhibitions\/2013-archive-imagining-islands-artists-and-escape__trashed\/interview-with-charles-avery\/\">Interview with Avery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape<\/em>\u00a0responded to The Courtauld Gallery\u2019s Summer Showcase,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/courtauld.ac.uk\/gallery\/exhibitions\/collecting-gauguin-samuel-courtauld-in-the-20s\/\">Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the \u201820s<\/a><\/em>, and draws on works from The Courtauld Gallery and the Arts Council Collection.<\/p>\n<p>In 1891, the artist Paul Gauguin travelled from Paris to the Pacific island of Tahiti in pursuit of a haven away from Western civilisation. Artists have long been drawn to the elusive ideals and tantalising fantasies that islands embody.<\/p>\n<p>This trans-historical exhibition explored artists\u2019 fascination with other worlds, real and imagined, and the perennial search for utopia, considering the concept of the island in poetic, evocative, and experimental ways.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/07\/2013-islands-catalogue.pdf\">Dowload the exibition catalogue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/07\/ImaginingIslandsTeachersresource_0001.pdf\">Download the teachers&#8217; resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 June &#8211; 21 July 2013 Selected works About the project Charles Avery\u2019s &#8220;The Islanders&#8221; Interview with Avery Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape\u00a0responded to The Courtauld Gallery\u2019s Summer Showcase,\u00a0Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the \u201820s, and draws on works from The Courtauld Gallery and the Arts Council Collection. 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