The Other American Moderns - Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa

Examines the works of four early to mid-twentieth-century American artists of Asian descent. Focuses on their critical engagement with notions of American modernism, and illuminates a transcultural positioning in modern American culture that predates our contemporary discourse on race and identity.

About the author

ShiPu Wang is Associate Professor and founding faculty of the Global Arts Studies Program (GASP) at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. He also curated and wrote the catalogue for Chiura Obata: An American Modern.

Summary

Examines the works of four early to mid-twentieth-century American artists of Asian descent. Focuses on their critical engagement with notions of American modernism, and illuminates a transcultural positioning in modern American culture that predates our contemporary discourse on race and identity.

Product details

• Authors: ShiPu Wang, ShiPu (Associate Professor Wang, Wang ShiPu
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2017
• EAN: 9780271077734
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07773-4
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1111 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / American / General, ART / Asian / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, Oriental art, ART / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander