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...atre Moderne, in Papeete, Tahiti, shows pictures five to 20 years...
Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
...Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii, Long picked up as messmate 69-year-old William Loy, a retired one-eyed mail carrier from Minneapolis. The 3,300 miles to Tahiti were enough for Loy, but there Long shipped on a 15-year-old Tahitian, Timi, who had worked in the film Mutiny on the Bounty...
...Sailor he expresses his enthusiasm in a few pages of miscellaneous facts about schools and 191 photographs of sailing vessels: These show cadets at work, studying navigation, shooting the sun, splicing, reefing (also glimpses apparently included only because they make nice pictures of the Joseph Conrad at Tahiti, Sydney, the Sargasso Sea). Typical schoolship facts: of 4,000 boys trained in the Danish schoolship Georg Stage, 2,000 are in the Danish merchant marine, most of them officers. In 50 years as a schoolship the Georg Stage had only one accident, lost 22 boys when she was run down...
...story centres on the relation between whites and natives. In an isolated valley in Tahiti, 16 years before the story opens, a young English widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep...