Gauguin and Polynesia

Paul Gauguin, a Post-Impressionist artist and writer, took up painting later in life and spent his final years in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, where he created works that express his fantasies of what the island might have been like before the arrival of Western influences. In Gauguin in Polynesia, anthropologist Nicholas Thomas delves into Gauguin’s story, offering a contemporary perspective that focuses on the Pacific contexts of his experiences and examines Pacific viewpoints on his art and legacy.