Paul Gauguin

"Criticism is our censorship..." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote Racontars de rapin only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his contemporaries and predecessors, Gauguin unpacks what he viewed as the mistakes and misjudgments behind much...