Linda Goddard is senior lecturer in art history at the University of St. Andrews.
“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic
account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter,
New York Times Book Review
“Perhaps Goddard’s greatest contribution in Savage
Tales is her restoration of the sense of material complexity
to Noa Noa and Gauguin’s other ambitious manuscripts, the
richness of which is lost in their transition to later print
editions. The collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word
and image is conveyed through beautiful reproductions of carefully
selected album pages, and she demonstrates how this bricolage of
motifs, and the process of appropriation, reiteration,
fragmentation and repetition are aesthetic strategies shared by the
artist’s visual and literary oeuvre.”—Mary Morton,
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"Anyone who still thinks of Paul Gauguin’s approach as an
individual or an artist as that of a simple exoticist should read
Linda Goddard’s outstanding book" - Timothy Matthews, French
Studies
"The wealth of illustrations further gives the reader a sense of
just how much language quickened the inspiration of this symbolist
painter, and how much the painted form sculpted his words. For this
reason, it is a book one will be glad to revisit many times and
find that a small treasure awaits on any of its pages" - Didier
Maleuvre, French History
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020
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