Re-examining the Life of Paul Gauguin, with Sue Prideaux

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:14.0	Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
0:19.0	I'm producer Leila Ishmael. Our guest today is biographer
0:23.5	Sue Prydo, who is best known for her award-winning biographies on Frederick Nietzsche and Edvard Munk.
0:30.6	In her latest biography, Wild Thing, Preeto turns her sharp lens on the life of 19th century French
0:36.7	artist Paul Goghan.
0:38.8	Joining her in conversation is executive producer of Intelligence Squared, Hannah Kay. Let's join
0:45.2	Hannah now with more. Hello, I'm Hannah Kaye and welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm
0:51.0	delighted to be joined by Sue Prudeau. Her biographies of Edward Mook, Augustrenberg and Friedrich Nietzsche have all won major book awards.
1:00.5	And today she's here to talk about her new book, Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Goga, which has been shortlisted for the Baby Giffithr Prize for nonfiction.
1:10.7	Sue, welcome to Intelligence Squad,
1:12.9	and congratulations on a magnificent book. Thank you, Hannah. Thanks a lot. Now, we live in the
1:18.6	time when the legacies of many great artists have been reassessed in the light of new sensitivities
1:26.2	towards race, gender, colonialism and so on.
1:30.6	And Paul Goga in particular has come under the spotlight.
1:34.9	So for this podcast, I did a little research, and I found that nowadays he's generally thought
1:40.7	to be, one might say, a pretty awful person.
1:44.6	In 2010, I found that Vicente Todoli, who was then director of Tate Modern in London,
1:51.9	when it staged a major Gorgat exhibition, said of Gorgain,
1:56.7	the person I can totally abhor and loathe, but the work is the work.
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