美国艺术家约翰·拉法基（John La Farge）先于高更（Gauguin）来到太平洋，在他们那个时代，他作为现代太平洋画家的声誉远远超过了法国人。这部杰出的作品记录了长达一年的穿越南海的艺术之旅，其间拉法基勇敢地冒着夏威夷的火山，拜访了萨摩亚的罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森，被塔希提岛的一个贵族家庭收养，并穿越斐济的荒山，对岛屿生活进行绘画和素描抒情研究。拉法基与他的朋友、历史学家亨利·亚当斯（Henry Adams）分享了波利尼西亚历险记，这本书用他的作品对波利尼西亚历险记进行了大量阐释，是对太平洋文学和艺术遗产的重要贡献，也是对一个复杂而迷人的人的生活的深刻洞察。
An American Artist in the South Seas
The American artists John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far overshadowed that of the Frenchman. This remarkable work is the record of a year-long artistic odyssey through the South Seas, during which La Farge braved the volcanoes of Hawaii, visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, was adopted by a noble Tahitian family and journeyed through the wild hills of Fiji, painting and sketching lyrical studies of island life. Lavishly illustrated with his work, this account of the Polynesian adventures that La Farge shared with his friend the historian Henry Adams is an important contribution to the literary and artistic heritage of the Pacific and a revealing insight into the life of a complex and fascinating man.
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