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Language: en
Pages: 599
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Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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The American artists John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far overshadowed that of the
Arts of the South Seas
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Ralph Linton
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1946 - Publisher:

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Based on an exhibition organized by Rene d'Harnoncourt at the Museum of Modern Art.
In American Waters
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Daniel Finamore
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-28 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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"For over 200 years, artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry and transformative power of the sea in American life. Oceans play a key
South Sea Maidens
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Michael Sturma
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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From the first European contact with Tahiti in 1767, the myth of the South Sea maiden has endured through many incarnations. Although the maiden frequently prov
Strangers in the South Seas
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Richard Lansdown
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends o