Gauguin's challenge: new perspectives after postmodernism

Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologised Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as 'the father of modernist primitivism'.

In this volume, both long-established and more recent Gauguin scholars offer a provocative picture of the evolution of Gauguin scholarship in the recent postmodern era, as they confront and consider how the dismantling of the longstanding Gauguin myth positions us now in the 21st century to deal with and assess the life, work, and legacy of this still perennially popular artist.