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Tiki pop : America imagines its own Polynesian paradise = L'Amérique rêve son paradis polynésien / Sven A. Kirsten.
Fine Arts Library NK808 .K5724x 2015
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Oversize NK808 .K5724 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirsten, Sven A., author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Decorative arts--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Decorative arts.
- Popular culture.
- Art, Polynesian.
- Manners and customs.
- United States.
- History.
- Decorative arts--United States--Foreign influences--Exhibitions.
- Art, Polynesian--Influence--Exhibitions.
- Popular culture--United States--Foreign influences--Exhibitions.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970--Exhibitions.
- Decorative arts--United States--History--20th century.
- Decorative arts--United States--Foreign influences.
- Art, Polynesian--Influence.
- Popular culture--United States--Foreign influences.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- America imagines its own Polynesian paradise
- Amérique rêve son paradis polynésien
- Tiki pop : L'Amérique rêve son paradis Polynésien
- Place of Publication:
- Köln : Taschen GmbH, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in English and French.
- Summary:
- "Movie jungle fantasies and bamboo hideaways set the stage for Tiki style, a pop culture phenomenon like no other. With urban archaeologist and Tiki sage Sven Kirsten, trace the Tiki trend from Gauguin's exoticism and Hollywood movie concepts to the elaborate temples built to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. Featuring hundreds of previously unpublished images, this is at once a visual feast, a cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise."--Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Pre-Tiki: setting the stage : Tiki-man, myth, merrymaker
- Cook, Bougainville, and the early explorers
- Artists and authors
- Storytellers in the South Seas
- The Hawaiian music craze
- South Seas made in Hollywood: from book to film to bar
- Tricks of the film trade: set design and special effects
- Natural materials of the tropical bar
- Beachcomber Bohemia
- The South Seas trader
- Movie clientele and celebrity culture
- Frances Langford: the bamboo blonde
- World War II: the Pacific theater of war
- The call of South Pacific and "Bali-Hai"
- The hula girl: emissary of the Polynesian paradise
- 2. The Tiki enters : Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku
- A brief history of the American Tiki cocktail
- The appearance of the Tiki icon
- The logo Tiki
- The Tiki mug
- Hawaiian statehood
- The modern and the primitive
- Tiki TV
- Grand Tiki Temples: the Mai-Kai
- Grand Tiki temples: the Kahiki
- Ritual and make-believe
- 3. Tiki expansion: peak and implosion : Tiki architecture
- Tiki apartments
- Tiki motels
- The Tiki bowling alley
- Artists and carvers
- Tiki at home
- Tiki amusement parks
- Tiki devolution
- Brando and the Bounty metaphor
- The Tiki revival.
- Notes:
- Illustrations on end papers.
- "French translation: Alice Pétillot, Bayonne, and Daniel Roche, Paris"--Colophon.
- "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Tiki Pop--America imagines its own Polynesian paradise, on show at the Musée du Quai Branly from June 24 to September 28, 2014"--Colophon.
- Text in English and French in parallel columns.
- "French translation: Alice Pétillot, Bayonne, and Daniel Roche, Paris."--Colophon.
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tiki Pop--America imagines its own Polynesian paradise, on show at the Musée du Quai Branly from June 24 to September 28, 2014."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy includes museum exhibit flyer, laid in.
- Athenaeum copy: Includes reproduction of material from the collection of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (p. 274).
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the publisher.
- Contains:
- Container of: Kirsten, Sven A. Tiki pop.
- Container of: Kirsten, Sven A. Tiki pop. French.
- ISBN:
- 9783836548519
- 3836548518
- OCLC:
- 864505873
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