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Monster artist/monstrous art?

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The Spirit of the Dead

David Kurs' new book, I am not your eve is based on a painting by Gogan. The artist took young girls as his wives and lived with them in Tahiti. He died of syphilis at the age of 50 after spending 20 years working there. In an interview he talks about what led him to look into this story.

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