Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture. In handy format, traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and cultural appropriation. Follow Tiki from James Cook's first Pacific Island expeditions, through erected to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. With hundreds of images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds in the dawning awareness of the Western world’s colonial misdeeds. This book is the culmination of the extensive research of , and author of earlier TASCHEN investigations, and , 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 is at once a visual feast,