Preface: regarding Tahiti
Histories of an island and an idea: from Tahiti to New Cythera
Garden of Eden to dying paradise: the foundational myths of Tahiti
Polynesia in Paris: Paul Gauguin in search of the exotic at the Exposition Universelle of 1889
The colonial lens: Gauguin, primitivism, and photography
Henry Adams, indolence, and ethnic tourism in Tahiti
John La Farge and the sensuousness of regret
Against vanishing.
Vanishing paradise : art and exoticism in colonial Tahiti by Elizabeth C. Childs. ISBN 9780520271739. Published by University of California Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.