ISBN:
9780520271739
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIII, 329 S.
,
Ill.
,
27 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
700/.45896211
Keywords:
Exoticism in art
;
Exoticism in literature
;
Paradise in art
;
Paradise in literature
;
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) In art
;
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) In literature
;
Künste
;
Tahiti
;
Exotismus
;
Geschichte 1880-1900
;
Kunst
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface: regarding TahitiHistories 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Permalink
