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Asian American Art A History, 1850-1970

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ISBN-10: 0804757526

ISBN-13: 9780804757522

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…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 8.66" wide x 10.94" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 5.588
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.