Asian traditions, modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970

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Name/Title

Asian traditions, modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970

Entry/Object ID

N6494.A2.A84

Description

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, Mar. 23-July 31, 1997; at the Chicago Cultural Center, IL, Sept. 6-Nov. 2, 1997; and at the Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Dec. 10, 1997-Feb. 14, 1998. An auxiliary exhibition on the theme was held at the Taipei Gallery, NY, Mar. 28-May 9, 1997.

Collection

Carol Westfall Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

art--abstract, art--modern--20th century, asian american art, exhibitions

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Jeffrey Wechsler, Rachel Tsutsumi

Publisher

H.N. Abrams, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Date Published

1997

Call No.

N6494.A2.A84

ISBN

810926822, 9780810926820

LCCN

96027195

Notes

Length: 224

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Introduction : finding the middle path / Jeffrey Wechsler -- "Abstraction" in the traditional art of East Asia / Tseng Yuho -- With the suddenness of creation : trends of abstract painting in Japan and China, 1945-1970 / Alexanra Munroe -- International abstraction in a national context : abstract painting in Korea, 1910-1965 / Jae-Ryung Roe -- Roundtable discussion / Don Ahn ... [et al.] -- From Asian traditions to modern expressions : abstract art by Asian Americans, 1945-1970 / Jeffrey Wechsler -- Artists' biographies / Caroline Goeser and Yuko Higa -- Hybrid worlds, singular visions : Hawai'i's Asian American heritage and art / Marcia Morse -- Personalizing the abstract : Asian American artists in Seattle / Kazuko Nakane -- From enemy alien to zen master : Japanese American identity in California during the postwar period / Karin Higa -- A brief cultural history of the Chinese in California : from early beginnings to the 1970s / Lorraine Dong and Marlon K. Hom -- Nipponism and the smell of paint : a recollection of New York, circa 1958-1961 / Yoshiaki Shimizu -- Reminiscences of Mi Chou : the first Chinese gallery in America / Frank Fulai Cho.