Paul Gauguin: the other and I

Uittreksel

"Paul Gauguin: The Other and I is the first exhibition to investigate Gauguin’s relationship to the idea of alterity and the exoticization of the 'other.' Focusing on his self-portraits and the works he produced in Tahiti, this catalogue addresses in a critical tone the inherent tensions between his biography and the image he created for himself, and considers the questions that arise at the center of contemporary debates about Gauguin’s oeuvre. Investigating the artist’s trajectory through issues as 'primitivism,' the 'exotic,' the 'tropics,' and cultural appropriation, besides the erotization of the female body, sexuality, and androgyny, this volume sheds new light on the ways in which Gauguin’s oeuvre reinforced the production of an imaginary about the 'other,' and builds a framework for an evaluation of its legacy today."-- Provided by publisher.

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Paul Gauguin at MASP / Heitor Martins and Adriano Pedrosa -- Paul Gauguin between Paris, Tahiti, and Sao Paulo / Fernando Oliva and Laura Cosendey -- Reconsidering Gauguin: Photography and Layered Histories / Heather Waldroup -- Paul Bauguin and His Art in the Era of Cancel Culture; Reception and Reassessments / Norma Broude -- Fifty Shades of Brown: Skin Color in French Colonial Imaginaire / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Gauguin and the Opacity of the Other: The case of Martinique / Tamar Garb -- "Iam My Otther, I am Myself": Bauguins' Enduring Legacy in the Pacific / Carolin Vercoe -- He Tangi Mo Ha'apuani: A Lament for Ha"apuani / Ngahula Te Awekotuku -- My Gauguin Chronicles: 1977-1997 / Stephen F. Eisenman -- The Holy Heads of Paul Gauguin: The Iconography of Gender, Rad and Spirit in his Self-Portraits / Irina Stotland -- Before and After: The Fragmentation of the Self in Gauguin's Avant et après / Linda Goddard -- Works in Exhibition -- Exhibition Checklist -- Slected Bibliography.