Gauguin Tahiti

Book excerpt: The book has over 250 colour illustrations, documentary photographs and essays by leading critics illuminate every aspect of Gauguin’s art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works. There are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape the art; an in-depth narrative of the artist’s life, with its many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries; and a chronicle of the changing fortunes of his reputation in the century since his death.