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Gauguin's Skirt
Gauguin's Skirt
Author: Stephen F. Eisenman
Gauguin's Skirt is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late nineteenth century, and colonialism new and old. It is concerned with Paul Gauguin's practices as an artist and with the practice of daily life in Polynesia. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, it reads like a b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500017661
ISBN-10: 0500017662
Publication Date: 5/1997
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Thames Hudson
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I found this book dense, overreaching, and, ultimately, a dull read. The author is regurgitating a great many theories and suppositions. Not very enlightening about Gauguin's art, either.


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