Otherness and exploitation in the fraught oeuvre of PostImpressionisms canonical painterThis book accompanies the first exhibition to investigate Paul Gauguins 18481903 relationship with the question of alterity and the exoticizing of otherness in his paintings. Adopting an engagingly critical tone Paul Gauguin The Other and I deals with central questions within the celebrated PostImpressionists oeuvre focusing on both his selfportraits and his works produced in Tahiti.Alongside reproductions of relevant works the book also features essays that examine the tensions between Gauguins biography and the image that the artist assiduously created of himself as well as the way in which his oeuvre reinforced an imaginary about otherness addressing crucial and current issues such as the notion of primitivism the ampampquotexoticampampquot and the ampampquottropicsampampquot and cultural appropriation as well as matters related to the erotization of the female body sexuality and androgyny.