Acclaimed feminist art historian Griselda Pollock dismantles the racist, sexist and imperialist underpinnings of works by Paul Gauguin and others as they competed for pre-eminence in the European avant-garde of the 1880s and 1890s. First delivered as a lecture in 1993, long before decolonizing and decentering the field of art history became an urgent clamor in art historical readership, this essay remains a powerful and ever-relevant riposte to...