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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Leila Ishmael.
Our guest today is biographer Sue Prideaux, who is best known for her award winning biographies on Friedrich Nietzsche and Edvard Munch.
In her latest biography, Wild Thing, Prideaux turns her sharp lens on the life of 19th century French artist Paul Gauguin.
Joining her in conversation is executive producer of Intelligence Intelligence Squared, Hannah Kaye.
Let's join Hannah now with more.
Hello, I'm Hannah Kaye and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm delighted to be joined by Sue Prideaux.
Her biographies of Edouard Munch, August Strindberg and Friedrich Nietzsche have all won major book awards.
And today she's here to talk about her new book, Wild A Life of Paul Gauguin, which has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.
Sue, welcome to Intelligence Squared and congratulations on a magnificent book.
Thank you, Hannah.
Thanks a lot.
Now we live in a time when the legacies of many great artists have been reassessed in the light of new sensitivities towards race, gender, colonialism and so on.
And Paul Gauguin in particular has come under the spotlight.
So for this podcast, I did a little research and I found that nowadays he's generally thought to be, one might say, a pretty awful person.
In 2010, I found that Vicente Todoli, who was then director of Tate Modern in London when it staged a major Gauguin exhibition, said of Gauguin, the person I can totally abhor and loathe, but the work is the work.
But for me in particular, it was the 2020-19 exhibition of Gauguin portraits at the National Gallery in London, where I realized that Gauguin had become, as it were, problematic.