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...Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope to Brittany-a nonstop journey of 10,000 miles. Other jaunts included Australia to Tahiti (after Colas quit his job as a French lecturer at the University of Sydney) and Tahiti to Mauritius (with his fiancée, Teura Krause...
...raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia. He failed to convince most fellow scholars that Peruvian-Polynesian cultural coincidences were more than just that. But by Aug. 7, when he cracked up on a coral reef 4,300 miles from Peru (and 250 miles east of Tahiti), Heyerdahl had proved indubitably that a balsa raft could cross the Pacific. He had also become a celebrity- one of those adventurers who stir the thin blood of the technological age with intimations of what the word hero once meant...
Moon provided a legend of the theatrical kind that Gauguin himself invited. Here was an archetypal rebel against bourgeois civilization, who quit a prosperous job on the Paris Stock Exchange to find his true artistic self in Tahiti among brown innocents, baptized anew in coconut milk and liberated from his own and Europe's stale past by primitive ritual...
...legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh, Maurice Denis and the Symbolist poets. Tahiti served only to inject new subjects into a vision and manner that had already set. This fact, crucial to an understanding of Gauguin's art, is elegantly documented in a selection of his pre-Tahiti paintings that opens this week at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The show runs from...
...TAHITI and Thrace and the world of all the People-all dreamlands? Perhaps, with Blitzstein, we will dare to hope that the last is something more...