Vanishing Paradise

Vanishing Paradise
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9780520271739
ISBN-13 : 0520271734
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Book Synopsis Vanishing Paradise by : Elizabeth C. Childs

Download or read book Vanishing Paradise written by Elizabeth C. Childs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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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