A01=John La Farge
American artist
art history studies
Artistic heritage
Author_John La Farge
Blue Sky
Brave Hearts
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Central Cone
Circus Troupe
cross-cultural artistic documentation
cultural encounters
Curious Peaks
Dana Lake
Dead Man
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Red
Dense
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Fiji
Grey Mountain
Grey Weather
Hansom Cabs
Hawaii
Honolulu
Impossible Amenity
La Farge
Mauna Kea
Midday
nineteenth-century travel
Pacific culture
Pacific exploration
Pacific islands
painting and sketching
Polynesian adventures
Polynesian ethnography
Port Royal Harbour
South Seas
Sticky Dropping
Tahiti
Tie Beams
travel narrative
visual anthropology
Water Fall
White Laws
Wild Ginger
Wild Men
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780710302564
- Weight: 1110g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 1987
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The American artist John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far overshadowed that of the Frenchman. This remarkable work is the record of a year-long artistic odyssey through the South Seas, during which La Farge braved the volcanoes of Hawaii, visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, was adopted by a noble Tahitian family and journeyed through the wild hills of Fiji, painting and sketching lyrical studies of island life. Lavishly illustrated with his work, this account of the Polynesian adventures that La Farge shared with his friend the historian Henry Adams is an important contribution to the literary and artistic heritage of the Pacific and a revealing insight into the life of a complex and fascinating man.
John La Farge was an American artist known for his sketches and paintings of the Pacific Islands. Introduction by Kaori O'Connor.
