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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. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, it enters the domains of biography and mystery. Gauguin went to Tahiti in search of an exotic paradise. What he found was a Fr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500280386
ISBN-10: 050028038X
Publication Date: 5/1/1999
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Thames Hudson
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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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