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A review by painauchocolat
Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal by Paul Gauguin
5.0
This journal wonderfully merges Gaugin's art and thought. There's a work at the beginning titled "chats without words." It's beautiful in a way that defies easy articulation.
To appreciate Gaugin, you have to accept that the beauty he created was in the time and in service of colonialism and racism. And his is a useful example in seeing the colonizer grapple with the inhumanity of his systems in real time. I do wonder if he ever went back to Tahiti after this experience. Thanks to Amrita Sher-Gil for the introduction.
To appreciate Gaugin, you have to accept that the beauty he created was in the time and in service of colonialism and racism. And his is a useful example in seeing the colonizer grapple with the inhumanity of his systems in real time. I do wonder if he ever went back to Tahiti after this experience. Thanks to Amrita Sher-Gil for the introduction.