Asian American art : a history, 1850-1970

Chang, Gordon H. (Added Author). Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953- (Added Author). Karlstrom, Paul J. (Added Author). Spain, Sharon. (Added Author).

Summary: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804757515 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780804757522 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0804757518 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0804757526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 547 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-512) and index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-512) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword : emerging from the shadows : the visual arts and Asian American history / Gordon H. Chang -- Uncovering Asian American art in San Francisco, 1850-1940 / Mark Dean Johnson -- Hidden in plain sight : Little Tokyo between the wars / Karin Higa -- Facing the Pacific : Asian American artists in Seattle (1900-1970) / Kazuko Nakane -- The tip of the iceberg : early Asian American artists in New York / Tom Wolf -- Deployments, engagements, obliterations : Asian American artists and World War II / Gordon H. Chang -- The wind came from the East : Asian American photography, 1850-1965 / Dennis Reed -- Pioneers, renegades, and visionaries : Asian American women artists in California, 1890s-1960s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Chinese artists in the United States : a Chinese perspective / Mayching Kao -- Postwar California : Asian American modernism / Paul J. Karlstrom -- Art and social consciousness : Asian American and Pacific Islander artists in San Francisco, 1965-1980 / Margo Machida.