Norma Broude is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University, USA. A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in 19th-century French and Italian painting, Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Gauguin, Degas, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Seurat, and the Italian Macchiaioli. She is also co-editor of four influential texts on feminist art history.

• List of PlatesList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gauguin After PostmodernismNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part I: Constructing Multiple Identities1. Gauguin's Alter Egos: Writing the Other and the SelfLinda Goddard (University of St Andrews, UK)2. Paul Gauguin's Self-Portraits in Polynesia: Androgyny and AmbivalenceIrina Stotland (Montgomery College, USA)3. Flora Tristan's Grandson: Reconsidering the Feminist Critique of Paul GauguinNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part II: Symbolism, Science, and Spirituality4. Gauguin and the Challenge of AmbiguityDario Gamboni (Université de Genève, Switzerland)5. On Not Seeing Tahiti: Gauguin's Noa Noa and the Rhetoric of BlindnessAlastair Wright (University of Oxford, UK)6. Evolution and Desire in Gauguin's Tahitian EveMartha Lucy (The Barnes Foundation)7. Gauguin: Vitalist, HypnotistBarbara Larson (University of West Florida, USA)8. "All Men Could Be Buddhas": Paul Gauguin's Marquesan DiptychJune E. Hargrove (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)Part III: Reception: Resistance and Empowerment9. Taking Back Teha'amana: Feminist Interventions in Gauguin's LegacyElizabeth C. Childs (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)10. Re-Possessing Gauguin: Material Histories and the Contemporary PacificHeather Waldroup (Appalachian State University, USA)Notes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Gauguin’s Challenge is a rich survey of recent scholarship that admirably shows this artist’s relevance for our politically fraught present.

Norma Broude is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University, USA. A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in 19th-century French and Italian painting, Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Gauguin, Degas, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Seurat, and the Italian Macchiaioli. She is also co-editor of four influential texts on feminist art history.

• List of PlatesList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gauguin After PostmodernismNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part I: Constructing Multiple Identities1. Gauguin's Alter Egos: Writing the Other and the SelfLinda Goddard (University of St Andrews, UK)2. Paul Gauguin's Self-Portraits in Polynesia: Androgyny and AmbivalenceIrina Stotland (Montgomery College, USA)3. Flora Tristan's Grandson: Reconsidering the Feminist Critique of Paul GauguinNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part II: Symbolism, Science, and Spirituality4. Gauguin and the Challenge of AmbiguityDario Gamboni (Université de Genève, Switzerland)5. On Not Seeing Tahiti: Gauguin's Noa Noa and the Rhetoric of BlindnessAlastair Wright (University of Oxford, UK)6. Evolution and Desire in Gauguin's Tahitian EveMartha Lucy (The Barnes Foundation)7. Gauguin: Vitalist, HypnotistBarbara Larson (University of West Florida, USA)8. "All Men Could Be Buddhas": Paul Gauguin's Marquesan DiptychJune E. Hargrove (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)Part III: Reception: Resistance and Empowerment9. Taking Back Teha'amana: Feminist Interventions in Gauguin's LegacyElizabeth C. Childs (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)10. Re-Possessing Gauguin: Material Histories and the Contemporary PacificHeather Waldroup (Appalachian State University, USA)Notes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Gauguin’s Challenge is a rich survey of recent scholarship that admirably shows this artist’s relevance for our politically fraught present.

Norma Broude is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University, USA. A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in 19th-century French and Italian painting, Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Gauguin, Degas, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Seurat, and the Italian Macchiaioli. She is also co-editor of four influential texts on feminist art history.

• List of PlatesList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gauguin After PostmodernismNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part I: Constructing Multiple Identities1. Gauguin's Alter Egos: Writing the Other and the SelfLinda Goddard (University of St Andrews, UK)2. Paul Gauguin's Self-Portraits in Polynesia: Androgyny and AmbivalenceIrina Stotland (Montgomery College, USA)3. Flora Tristan's Grandson: Reconsidering the Feminist Critique of Paul GauguinNorma Broude (American University, USA)Part II: Symbolism, Science, and Spirituality4. Gauguin and the Challenge of AmbiguityDario Gamboni (Université de Genève, Switzerland)5. On Not Seeing Tahiti: Gauguin's Noa Noa and the Rhetoric of BlindnessAlastair Wright (University of Oxford, UK)6. Evolution and Desire in Gauguin's Tahitian EveMartha Lucy (The Barnes Foundation)7. Gauguin: Vitalist, HypnotistBarbara Larson (University of West Florida, USA)8. "All Men Could Be Buddhas": Paul Gauguin's Marquesan DiptychJune E. Hargrove (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)Part III: Reception: Resistance and Empowerment9. Taking Back Teha'amana: Feminist Interventions in Gauguin's LegacyElizabeth C. Childs (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)10. Re-Possessing Gauguin: Material Histories and the Contemporary PacificHeather Waldroup (Appalachian State University, USA)Notes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Gauguin’s Challenge is a rich survey of recent scholarship that admirably shows this artist’s relevance for our politically fraught present.