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The other American moderns Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa

"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"...

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Main Author: Wang, ShiPu (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : Penn State University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Matsura, Frank, > 1873-1913 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ishigaki, Eitarō, > 1893-1958 > Criticism and interpretation.
Noda, Hideo, > 1908-1939 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hayakawa, Miki, > 1899-1953 > Criticism and interpretation.
Japanese American art > 20th century.
Modernism (Art) > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the other American moderns
  • Going "native" in an American borderland : Frank S. Matsura's photographic miscegenation
  • By proxy of his black heroes : Eitarō Ishigaki and the battles for equality
  • We are Scottsboro boys : Hideo Noda's visual rhetoric of transracial solidarity
  • In search of Miki : Hayakawa, a Californian cosmopolitan
  • Epilogue : concerning exclusion.

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