Griselda Pollock on Gauguin

9780500029787

Beneath the radiant colours of paradise, other shadows take shape. Griselda Pollock lifts the veil of the canvas, bringing to light what the gaze has long preferred not to see. When the history of art shifts its light, masterpieces become witnesses, too, to the world from which they emerged.

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What if, behind the colours of the dream, another history of the avant-garde were waiting to be told? In this incisive essay, Griselda Pollock shifts the gaze, examining Gauguin's images through the intertwined lenses of gender, race, and power. Beneath the allure of the exotic and the promise of elsewhere, she reveals the racist, sexist, and imperialist imaginaries that shaped parts of European art in the 1880s and 1890s. The painting is no longer an innocent window, but a place where desire, domination, fantasy, and the colonial gaze converge. Challenging the narratives that have long shaped our understanding of modern art, Pollock asks us to consider not only what art history has chosen to celebrate, but also what it has left in the shadows. A concise yet powerful book that invites us to look anew - and to hear, beneath the colours, the voices painting once rendered silent.

Description & Features

Authors
Griselda Pollock
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Dimensions
12 x 18
Publication year
2025
Number of pages
120
Number of illustrations
33
EAN
9780500029787 (French)
EAN
9780500027721 (English)