Tiki Pop. America imagines its own Polynesian Paradise

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Polynesian pop icon: How Tiki was an American dream
 

Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century The us, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture.

Published in connection with an exhibition on the prestigious Musée du quai Branly in Paris, Tiki Pop traces the advance 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 With hundreds of up to now unpublished images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds from its earliest, enthusiastic beginnings to its spectacular downfall within the dawning awareness of the Western world’s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 writer of in advance 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’s directly a visual feast, a piece of cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise.

 
Text in English and French

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