The other American moderns
Subtitle: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa
By: ShiPu Wang
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780271077734
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Japanese American art; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Examines the works of four early to mid-twentieth-century American artists of Asian descent. Focuses on their critical engagement with notions of American modernism, and illuminates a transcultural positioning in modern American culture that predates our contemporary discourse on race and identity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the other American moderns; title: Going "native" in an American borderland : Frank S. Matsura's photographic miscegenation; title: By proxy of his black heroes : Eitarō Ishigaki and the battles for equality; title: We are Scottsboro boys : Hideo Noda's visual rhetoric of transracial solidarity; title: In search of Miki : Hayakawa, a Californian cosmopolitan; title: Epilogue : concerning exclusion.