Post #255944 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Sep 21, 2006 7:26 AM

In a way, the new book will be sort of a Book of Tiki II. When I faltered in getting the Witco book finished, Taschen agreed to do it with me, but a book ONLY on Witco was too specialized for them. I could not do a book assuming that everyone who picked it up would own the BOT, anyway, so I had to re-cap Polynesian pop history. I did it from a different angle, with all new material, which will be another cornucopia of vintage eye candy.

So now the first 9 of 19 chapters will be about the paralell evolution of pop primitivism and modernism, to put Witco firmly into a context. From then on it's Witco, with references to Tiki at the time.

Off course I again had too much material, and had to keep subject matters shorter than I liked in some cases, like the Mauna Loa has only a brief mention for example. I believe there is still room for a more complete, encyclopedic Book on Tiki temples and their paraphenalia, but that's not my interest.

"TIKI MODERN and the Wild World of Witco", due out in February 2007, will be the same size and thickness of the BOT, and I believe I managed to cram about a hundred more images into it. :)