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Bezig met laden... Tiki Pop (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition) (editie 2020)door Sven Kirsten (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkTiki Pop: America imagines its own Polynesian Paradise door Sven Kirsten
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a Very Large (dimensionally, not in terms of pages, though it's substantial in that dept. too!) book, richly illustrated, and yet with enough text to feel that you're definitely learning about the subject, and not just reading captions for a picture book. I've learned so much about the subject--it's pretty definitive unless you're looking for an unillustrated, purely academic dissertation on the subject ... but what fun would that be? (Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. There are a lot of 4s and 3s in the world!) Great book which I didn't need but I bought anyway. Beautiful pictures of how Tiki was slowly appropriated by explorers and then by the USA into its pop culture. The author has written two previous books on the romantization of polynesian culture including time during WWII. An expensive but fanatstic coffee table book to browse through. French and English text. Large format picture pages. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Polynesian pop icon: How Tiki became an American dream Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture. Published in connection with an exhibition at the prestigious Mus#65533;e du quai Branly in Paris, Tiki Pop traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and cultural appropriation. Follow Tiki from James Cook's first Pacific Island expeditions, through Gauguin's exotic paintings, Hollywood jungle fantasies, and elaborate temples erected to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. With hundreds of previously unpublished images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds from its earliest, enthusiastic beginnings to its spectacular downfall in the dawning awareness of the Western world's colonial misdeeds. This book is the culmination of the extensive research of Sven Kirsten, urban archaeologist, Tiki sage, and author of earlier TASCHEN books, The Book of Tiki and Tiki Modern, which first recovered the figure of Tiki from obscurity. In his widely lauded graphic style, Kirsten places venerable ancient godheads next to their Polynesian pop counterparts, movie posters next to matchboxes, comic strips next to Robinson Crusoe illustrations. The result is at once a visual feast, a piece of cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise. Text in English and French Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)709.96The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography Pacific PolynesiaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I had no idea the Polynesian Cultural Center on Oahu was run my LDS??? No wonder I never went when I had the chance.
Well done, another Taschen classic. ( )