Asian American Art A History, 1850-1970

Name: Asian American Art A History, 1850-1970
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ISBN: 9780804757515

ISBN-10: 0804757518

ISBN-13: 9780804757515

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, Paul Karlstrom, Sharon Spain

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Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists. Aside from a few artists such as Dong Kingman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isamu Noguchi, and Yun Gee, artists of Asian ancestry have received inadequate historical attention, even though many of them received wide critical acclaim during their productive years. This pioneering work recovers the extraordinarily impressive artistic production of…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 8.94" wide x 11.38" long x 1.81" tall
Weight: 6.380
Language: English

Gordon H. Chang is Oliver H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University.

Paul J. Karlstrom, former West Coast Regional Director of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, is the editor ofOn the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950(UC Press) and a co-editor ofAsian American Art: A History, 1860-1970. He is coauthor ofTurning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956 and author ofRaimonds Staprans: Art of Tranquility and Turbulence.




Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History




Beyond East and West: Artists of Asian Ancestry in America



Uncovering Asian American Art in San Francisco, 1850-1940



Hidden in Plain Sight: Little Tokyo Between the Wars



Facing the Pacific: Asian American Artists in Seattle, 1900-1970



The Tip of the Iceberg: Early Asian American Artists in New York



Deployments, Engagements, Obliterations: Asian American Artists and World War II



The Wind Came from the East: Asian American Photography, 1850-1965



Pioneers, Renegades, and Visionaries: Asian American Women Artists in California, 1880s-1960s



Chinese Artists in the United States: A Chinese Perspective



Postwar California: Asian American Modernism



Art and Social Consciousness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists in San Francisco, 1965-1980



Introduction to Biographies of California Asian American Artists, 1850-1965



Biographical Entries


Chronology of Asian American Art and History, 1850-1965



Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Credits


Index