Research Catalog

Title

Hidden in plain sight : selected writings of Karin Higa / edited by Julie Ault.

Author

Higa, Karin M.

Publication

• Brooklyn : Dancing Foxes Press : in association with the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories initiative, [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Ault, Julie
• Lee, Pamela M.

Description

415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm

Summary

"Edited by the renowned artist, curator, writer, and editor Julie Ault, Hidden in Plain Sight brings together essential writings by the art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966-2013). The selected essays, written between 1992 and 2011, focus on the creation of Japanese internment camps and the artistic production and communities that took root within them, as well as on the individual and collective narratives of Asian American artists in response to discriminatory immigration policies. While exploring issues of national identity and immigration, Higa recuperates significant artists and oeuvres from historical neglect and regards works by contemporary artists to examine how art acts as both a source for cultural identity and a transmitter of culture. This book reveals how Higa's conviction that art and the lived experience of the past are indissolubly linked was at the root of her methodological modeling of an Asian American art history. Moving between portrayals of milieux such as artists' networks in the camps, Little Tokyo communities, and cities around the world--across ethnic, geographic, and stylistic boundaries--and case studies of oeuvres and biographies, she recovers vital art practices and hidden histories of creative struggle and efflorescence, in the process mapping individual practices, networks, and communal life, as fertile creative contexts. Higa shows how artists of Asian descent have moved past the divide between United States and their ancestral homes by using their freedom as artists to more broadly define their culture."--

Subject

• Higa, Karin M. > Written works
• Higa, Karin M
• 1939-1945
• Prisoners of war as artists > United States
• Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians > United States
• Japanese American artists
• Asian American art > History
• Evacuation of civilians
• Japanese Americans
• Japanese American art
• Prisoners of war as artists
• Asian American art
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Foreword by Pamela M. Lee; introduction by Julie Ault.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-414).

Call Number

JQE 23-261

ISBN

• 195494702X
• 9781954947023

OCLC

1289988354

Author

Higa, Karin M., author.

Title

Hidden in plain sight : selected writings of Karin Higa / edited by Julie Ault.

Publisher

Brooklyn : Dancing Foxes Press : in association with the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories initiative, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-414).

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Ault, Julie, editor, writer of introduction.

Lee, Pamela M., writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JQE 23-261