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Childs, Elizabeth C.
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Exoticism in art.
Exoticism in literature.
Paradise in art.
Paradise in literature.
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- In art.
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- In literature.
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Vanishing paradise :...
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Vanishing paradise : art and exoticism in colonial Tahiti / Elizabeth C. Childs.
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Childs, Elizabeth C.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
Subjects
Exoticism in art.
Exoticism in literature.
Paradise in art.
Paradise in literature.
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- In art.
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- In literature.
ISBN:
9780520271739 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520271734 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
xxiii, 329 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Edition:
1st [edition].
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.
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Hawaii State Library
Hawaiian & Pacific
H 700.45896 Ch
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05/22/2024
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Hawaiian Nonfiction
H 700.45896 Ch
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