Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti by Elizabeth C. Childs

Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti

Elizabeth C. Childs

352 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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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 siècle longings for the exotic, a few adventuro...

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