Published on the occasion of an exhibition entitled Gauguin and Polynesia, held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Sept. 24-Dec. 31, 2011, and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Feb. 9-Apr. 29, 2012. Cf. foreword

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Gauguin and Polynesia : encounter of two worlds / Suzanne Greub -- A Danish start? : Paul Gauguin and the 'primitive' / Flemming Friborg -- Gauguin and the Paris World Fair : imagining the 'studio of the tropics' / Douglas Druick and Peter Zegers -- The participation of the '©tablissements fran©ʹais de l'Oc©♭anie' at the World Fair in Paris in 1889 / V©♭ronique Mu-Liepmann -- Art and culture in 18th and 19th-century French Polynesia / Carol S. Ivory -- Handsome, savage and tattooed! : the tattoos and ornaments of the inhabitants of the 'Land of Men' in Gauguin's day and before / Marie-No©±lle Ottino-Garanger -- The first stay on Tahiti, June 1891-June 1893 / Isabelle Cahn -- On 1890s Tahiti / Anne D'Alleva -- Felicitous interbreedings / Stephane Guegan -- Gauguin's Auckland visit / Bronwen Nicholson -- Remixing paradise : Gauguin and the Marquesas Islands / Elizabeth C. Childs -- Shifting visions in Marquesan art at the turn of the century / Carol S. Ivory -- Contemporary worlds : artists in the Pacific respond to Gauguin / Caroline Vercoe