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Vanishing paradise : art and exoticism in colonial Tahiti / Elizabeth C. Childs.
Fine Arts Library NX653.T35 C49 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childs, Elizabeth C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--In art.
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--In literature.
- Exoticism in art.
- Exoticism in literature.
- Paradise in art.
- Paradise in literature.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Preface: regarding Tahiti
- Histories of an island and an idea: from Tahiti to New Cythera
- Garden of Eden to dying paradise: the foundational myths of Tahiti
- Polynesia in Paris: Paul Gauguin in search of the exotic at the Exposition Universelle of 1889
- The colonial lens: Gauguin, primitivism, and photography
- Henry Adams, indolence, and ethnic tourism in Tahiti
- John La Farge and the sensuousness of regret
- Against vanishing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520271739
- 0520271734
- OCLC:
- 810773211
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