Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti

by Elizabeth C. Childs

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 si cle 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271734
• ISBN13: 9780520271739
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"