Asian traditions/modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970 /
Asian traditions/modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970 /
edited by Jeffrey Wechsler.
- 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index.
Director's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding the Middle Path -- "Abstraction" in the Traditional Art of East Asia -- With the Suddenness of Creation: Trends of Abstract Painting in Japan and China, 1945-1970 -- International Abstraction in a National Context: Abstract Painting in Korea, 1910-1965 -- Roundtable Discussion -- From Asian Traditions to Modern Expressions: Abstract Art by Asian Americans, 1945-1970 -- Artists' Biographies -- Hybrid Worlds, Singular Visions: Hawaii's Asian American Heritage and Art -- Personalizing the Abstract: Asian American Artists in Seattle -- From Enemy Alien to Zen Master: Japanese American Identity in California During the Postwar Period -- A Brief Cultural History of the Chinese in California: From Early Beginnings to the 1970s -- Nipponism and the Smell of Paint: A Recollection of New York, circa 1958-1961 -- Reminiscences of Mi Chou: The First Chinese Gallery in America -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index -- Photograph Credits.
0810919761 (clothbound) 0810926822 (mus. pbk.)
96027195
Asian American art
Art, Abstract--United States
N6538.A83 / A84 1997
704.0395073
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index.
Director's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding the Middle Path -- "Abstraction" in the Traditional Art of East Asia -- With the Suddenness of Creation: Trends of Abstract Painting in Japan and China, 1945-1970 -- International Abstraction in a National Context: Abstract Painting in Korea, 1910-1965 -- Roundtable Discussion -- From Asian Traditions to Modern Expressions: Abstract Art by Asian Americans, 1945-1970 -- Artists' Biographies -- Hybrid Worlds, Singular Visions: Hawaii's Asian American Heritage and Art -- Personalizing the Abstract: Asian American Artists in Seattle -- From Enemy Alien to Zen Master: Japanese American Identity in California During the Postwar Period -- A Brief Cultural History of the Chinese in California: From Early Beginnings to the 1970s -- Nipponism and the Smell of Paint: A Recollection of New York, circa 1958-1961 -- Reminiscences of Mi Chou: The First Chinese Gallery in America -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index -- Photograph Credits.
0810919761 (clothbound) 0810926822 (mus. pbk.)
96027195
Asian American art
Art, Abstract--United States
N6538.A83 / A84 1997
704.0395073