Asian/American/Modern Art Shifting Currents, 1900-1970

Name: Asian/American/Modern Art Shifting Currents, 1900-1970
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ISBN: 9780520258648

ISBN-10: 0520258649

ISBN-13: 9780520258648

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daniel Cornell, Mark Dean Johnson, Daniell Cornell, Gordon Chang, Sharon Spain

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This beautifully illustrated volume, companion book to the exhibition of the same name, presents the first comprehensive survey of work produced by artists of Asian descent in America during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. Featuring examples across many media and extending beyond ethnicity,Asian/American/Modern Artbrings into focus an underrepresented and vital group within American art. Introduced by historian Gordon H. Chang and cocurator Mark Dean Johnson, with contributions by cocurator Daniell Cornell and Karen Higa, Sharon Spain, and ShiPu Wang, the book follows the exhibition's multiethnic and multidisciplinary approach. Rather than defining an Asian American art…

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/12/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 9.75" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

Daniell Cornellis Deputy Director for Art and Senior Curator, Palm Springs Art Museum.Mark Dean Johnsonis Professor of Art at San Francisco State University and Research Fellow at Stanford University.



Foreword



Introduction



The Search for Roots, or Finding a Precursor



Performing Diaspora: The Body and Identity in the Work of Asian American Artists



Journeys into Abstraction: Asia, America, Europe, and the Art of Yun Gee, Alfonso Ossorio, and Isamu Noguchi



Catalogue of the Exhibition



Looking Both Ways: Asian American Pre-World War II Figurative Hybridity


Japanese American Pictorialist Photography


War and Peace


Urban Life and Community


Philosophy and Religion


Nature and Sexuality as Abstraction


Ink and Line


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


Lenders to the Exhibition


Photograph Credits


Contributors