Savage Tales

“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review

“Goddard conveys Gauguin’s collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image through beautiful reproductions of carefully selected album pages, and she demonstrates how this bricolage of motifs, and the process of appropriation, reiteration, fragmentation and repetition are aesthetic strategies shared by the artist’s visual and literary oeuvre.”—Mary Morton, The Art Newspaper

“Goddard is well-versed in the literature on Gauguin . . . [Savage Tales] is lavishly illustrated, and the visual and verbal components complement each other . . . Godard has done the reader a real service.”—Nicholas Delbanco, New York Journal of Books

“[Savage Tales] analyzes [Gauguin’s] original manuscripts, some of which are richly illustrated, reinstating them as an integral component of his art . . . This book will appeal to both the serious academic and the more casual aficionado of Gauguin’s works.”—Antiques and the Arts Weekly 

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020