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Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
Elizabeth C. Childs
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Description for Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
Hardback. Offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. This title explores how these artists, lured by romantic ideas about travel and exploration, wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 color illustrations, 122 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKPFT; ACBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 184 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1016.
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 siecle 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 first time, "Vanishing Paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American John ... Read more
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 siecle 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 first time, "Vanishing Paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American John ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1016g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271739
SKU
V9780520271739
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About Elizabeth C. Childs
Elizabeth C. Childs is Etta and Mark Steinberg Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University.
Reviews for Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
"I can't recall when I've been so enthralled by a book about 19th century art. Elizabeth Childs' Vanishing Paradise is an exhaustive, beautifully written account of colonialism in Tahiti and its enduring influence on art in the West."
Farisa Khalid PopMatters.com "A much-needed, deeply humane view of artists and Tahiti that is truly elegant and refreshingly complex... Childs's scholarship ... Read more
Farisa Khalid PopMatters.com "A much-needed, deeply humane view of artists and Tahiti that is truly elegant and refreshingly complex... Childs's scholarship ... Read more