Vanishing Paradise

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Author	: Elizabeth C. Childs
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Total Pages	: 358
Release	: 2013-05-18
ISBN-10	: 9780520271739
ISBN-13	: 0520271734
Rating	: 4/5 (39 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Vanishing Paradise by : Elizabeth C. Childs

Book excerpt: Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.

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