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E-book The Saburo Hasegawa Reader

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Saburo Hasegawa’s suddenly high-profile work and ideas resonated in a mid-twen-tieth-century American art world that had been largely leveled and restructured by the turmoil of World War II and its geopolitical aftermath. Modernist players and an existential ethos from Europe as well as philosophies from Asia eventually supplanted American scene regionalist artists and figurative and social realism genres. Japanese artists who had established careers in America during the pre-war period were impacted in multiple ways. Ineligible for naturalization until the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, West Coast Issei artists like Chiura Obata struggled to reestablish themselves after wartime internment. Among the most prominent prewar New York artists were Eitaro Ishigaki, who was deported as a Commu-nist in 1951, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who, although his work was the subject of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s first solo retrospective in 1948, and he was one of four artists selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1952, was no longer considered to be at the vanguard. After Kuniyoshi’s death in 1953, Saburo Hasegawa was seen as representative of a new generation of Japanese artists who were conversant in timely issues like abstraction and Zen, and whole-heartedly welcomed to America.When Saburo Hasegawa died in San Francisco in 1957 at the age of fifty, he was among the most renowned contemporary Japanese artists on both the East and West Coasts of the United States. He had achieved this status in three short years, in part because of his charismatic intellectual persona and in part because of the unparalleled critical acclaim generated by his many American solo exhibi-tions and provocative curatorial projects. His rapid rise to art world visibility in New York and California was also unarguably due in some significant measure to the enthusiastic support he received from artists Isamu Noguchi and Franz Kline, as well as the philosopher Alan Watts. But after Hasegawa’s untimely death from cancer of the mouth, awareness of his work and his contributions to bridging the cultures of East and West declined just as precipitously. He became little more than an arcane footnote in Noguchi’s biography, the backstory for the curious title of a painting and a few drawings by Kline, and the subject of an obscure unpublished essay by Watts.

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Judul Seri

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700 HAS t

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California : University of California Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

208 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780520298996

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700

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Arts

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