The Saburo Hasegawa Reader / Dakin Hart, Mark Dean Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mark Dean, Editor.

Contributor:

Hart, Dakin, Editor.

Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953- Editor.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957--Archives.

Hasegawa, Saburō.

Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957--Criticism and interpretation.

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.

Noguchi, Isamu.

Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957--Friends and associates.

Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.

Art, Japanese--20th century.

Art, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 170 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2019

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English with four essays translated from the Japanese.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Hasegawa Reader is an open access companion to the bilingual catalogue copublished with The Noguchi Museum to accompany an international touring exhibition, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan. The exhibition features the work of two artists who were friends and contemporaries: Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa. This volume is intended to give scholars and general readers access to a wealth of archival material and writings by and about Saburo Hasegawa. While Noguchi's reputation as a preeminent American sculptor of the twentieth century only grows stronger, Saburo Hasegawa is less well known, despite being considered the most literate artist in Japan during his lifetime (1906-1957). Hasegawa is credited with introducing abstraction in Japan in the mid 1930s, and he worked as an artist in diverse media including oil and ink painting, photography, and printmaking. He was also a theorist and widely published essayist, curator, teacher, and multilingual conversationalist. This valuable trove of Hasegawa material includes the entire manuscript for a 1957 Hasegawa memorial volume, with its beautiful essays by philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished writings by Hasegawa. The ebook edition will also include a dozen essays by Hasegawa from the postwar period, and one prewar essay, professionally translated for this publication to give a sense of Hasegawa's voice. This resource will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students interested in midcentury East Asian and American art and tracing the emergence of contemporary issues of hybridity, transnationalism, and notions of a "global Asia.";

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on Translation

Saburo Hasegawa: A Brief Biography

1. The Controlled Accident

2. The Paintings of Saburo Hasegawa

3. Saburo Hasegawa: Master of the Controlled Accident

4. Saburo Hasegawa as a Leader in Modern Art in Japan

5. Selected Writings by Saburo Hasegawa

6. Remembrances of Former California College of Arts and Crafts Students

7. Selected Letters from Hasegawa to Isamu Noguchi, 1950-1951

8. On Sesshu, 1934

9. Sesshu, 1948

10. The New Art, 1948

11. Conversations with Isamu Noguchi June 8 and 9, 1950

12. Days with Isamu Noguchi, 1950

13. Rambling Words on Song-Yuan Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1950

14. Mondrian: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951

15. Arp: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951

16. Letters from France and America: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951

17. Making the Katsura Imperial Villa Abstract, 1951

18. Calligraphy and New Painting, 1952

19. New Photography and Painting, 1953

20. The Fate of American Artists, 1955

21. Present-Day American Abstract Art, 1955

22. Nationalism and Universalism in Japanese Art, 1955

Notes

Notes:

The Saburo Haseagwa reader accompanies the exhibition Changing and unchanging things : Noguchi and Hasegawa in postwar Japan, which is made possible through lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780520298996

0520298993

OCLC:

1082327134

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access