Asian American art, 1850-1970
By: Gordon H. Chang, senior editor ; Mark Dean Johnson, principal editor ; Paul J. Karlstrom, consulting editor ; Sharon Spain, managing editor.
Contributors: Chang, Gordon H.; Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953-; Karlstrom, Paul J.; Spain, Sharon.
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Stanford General Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780804757515; 9780804757522
Subjects: Asian American art -- 19th century; Asian American art -- 20th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-512) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : emerging from the shadows : the visual arts and Asian American history / Gordon H. Chang; title: Uncovering Asian American art in San Francisco, 1850-1940 / Mark Dean Johnson; title: Hidden in plain sight : Little Tokyo between the wars / Karin Higa; title: Facing the Pacific : Asian American artists in Seattle (1900-1970) / Kazuko Nakane; title: The tip of the iceberg : early Asian American artists in New York / Tom Wolf; title: Deployments, engagements, obliterations : Asian American artists and World War II / Gordon H. Chang; title: The wind came from the East : Asian American photography, 1850-1965 / Dennis Reed; title: Pioneers, renegades, and visionaries : Asian American women artists in California, 1890s-1960s / Valerie J. Matsumoto; title: Chinese artists in the United States : a Chinese perspective / Mayching Kao; title: Postwar California : Asian American modernism / Paul J. Karlstrom; title: Art and social consciousness : Asian American and Pacific Islander artists in San Francisco, 1965-1980 / Margo Machida.