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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)
Description: In Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin (Yale University Press, 2019), Linda Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played in his artistic practice and in his negotiation of his colonial identity.As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Gauguin occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism, but this is the first book to be devoted to his wide-ranging literary output, including his journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics.In the book, Dr. Goddard analyzes what are often richly illustrated manuscripts and she counters th...