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Asian American art, a history 1850-1970

Title
Asian American art, a history 1850-1970 / Gordon H. Chang, senior editor ; Mark Dean Johnson, principal editor ; Paul J. Karlstrom, consulting editor ; Sharon Spain, managing editor.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Chang, Gordon H.
  • Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953-
  • Karlstrom, Paul J.
  • Spain, Sharon.
Description
xxiii, 547 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
"Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is 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 10 leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1800-1999
  • Asian American art > 19th century
  • Asian American art > 20th century
  • Asian American art
  • Kunst
  • USA
  • Asiaten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-512) and index.
Contents
Foreword : emerging from the shadows : the visual arts and Asian American history / Gordon H. Chang -- Uncovering Asian American art in San Francisco, 1850-1940 / Mark Dean Johnson -- Hidden in plain sight : Little Tokyo between the wars / Karin Higa -- Facing the Pacific : Asian American artists in Seattle (1900-1970) / Kazuko Nakane -- The tip of the iceberg : early Asian American artists in New York / Tom Wolf -- Deployments, engagements, obliterations : Asian American artists and World War II / Gordon H. Chang -- The wind came from the East : Asian American photography, 1850-1965 / Dennis Reed -- Pioneers, renegades, and visionaries : Asian American women artists in California, 1890s-1960s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Chinese artists in the United States : a Chinese perspective / Mayching Kao -- Postwar California : Asian American modernism / Paul J. Karlstrom -- Art and social consciousness : Asian American and Pacific Islander artists in San Francisco, 1965-1980 / Margo Machida.
ISBN
  • 9780804757515
  • 0804757518
  • 9780804757522
  • 0804757526
LCCN
  • 2007051705
  • 40015970773
OCLC
  • ocn184925464
  • 184925464
  • SCSB-1458659
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library