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Vanishing paradise. Art and exoticism in colonial Tahiti

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  • "In the late nineteenth century, Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly paradise and of an island utopia that offered abundance and simplicity in a place distant both geographically and culturally from Gilded Age or Belle Epoque. Stimulated by fin-de-siècle longings for the exotic, a few adventurous artists and writers sought out this Eden in the South Sea -but what they found did not always live up to the Eden of their imagination. Bringing three of these figures together in comparative perspectives 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 artist John La Farge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Drawing on archives throughout Europe, America, and the South Pacific, Childs explore how these artists and writers, lured by romantic ideas about travel and exploration, wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern."

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