Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti

by Elizabeth C. Childs

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In the late nineteenth century Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly Paradise, a primitive utopia distant geographically and culturally from the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque. Stimulated by fin de si cle longings for the exotic, a few adventurous artists sought out this Eden on the South Seas--but what they found did not always live up to the Eden of their imagination. Bringing three of these figures together in comparative perspective for the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520271734

ISBN13:9780520271739

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:2.24 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography

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