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Asian traditions/modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970 / edited by Jeffrey Wechsler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1997Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 0810919761 (clothbound)
  • 0810926822 (mus. pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.0395073
LOC classification:
  • N6538.A83 A84 1997
Contents:
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.
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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.

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