Linda Goddard is senior lecturer in art history at the University of St. Andrews.

“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Perhaps Goddard’s greatest contribution in Savage Tales is her restoration of the sense of material complexity to Noa Noa and Gauguin’s other ambitious manuscripts, the richness of which is lost in their transition to later print editions. The collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image is conveyed 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, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"Anyone who still thinks of Paul Gauguin’s approach as an individual or an artist as that of a simple exoticist should read Linda Goddard’s outstanding book" - Timothy Matthews, French Studies"The wealth of illustrations further gives the reader a sense of just how much language quickened the inspiration of this symbolist painter, and how much the painted form sculpted his words. For this reason, it is a book one will be glad to revisit many times and find that a small treasure awaits on any of its pages" - Didier Maleuvre, French HistoryCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020

Linda Goddard is senior lecturer in art history at the University of St. Andrews.

“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Perhaps Goddard’s greatest contribution in Savage Tales is her restoration of the sense of material complexity to Noa Noa and Gauguin’s other ambitious manuscripts, the richness of which is lost in their transition to later print editions. The collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image is conveyed 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, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"Anyone who still thinks of Paul Gauguin’s approach as an individual or an artist as that of a simple exoticist should read Linda Goddard’s outstanding book" - Timothy Matthews, French Studies"The wealth of illustrations further gives the reader a sense of just how much language quickened the inspiration of this symbolist painter, and how much the painted form sculpted his words. For this reason, it is a book one will be glad to revisit many times and find that a small treasure awaits on any of its pages" - Didier Maleuvre, French HistoryCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020

Linda Goddard is senior lecturer in art history at the University of St. Andrews.

“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Perhaps Goddard’s greatest contribution in Savage Tales is her restoration of the sense of material complexity to Noa Noa and Gauguin’s other ambitious manuscripts, the richness of which is lost in their transition to later print editions. The collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image is conveyed 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, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide"Anyone who still thinks of Paul Gauguin’s approach as an individual or an artist as that of a simple exoticist should read Linda Goddard’s outstanding book" - Timothy Matthews, French Studies"The wealth of illustrations further gives the reader a sense of just how much language quickened the inspiration of this symbolist painter, and how much the painted form sculpted his words. For this reason, it is a book one will be glad to revisit many times and find that a small treasure awaits on any of its pages" - Didier Maleuvre, French HistoryCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020