Description: The Saburo Hasegawa Reader by Mark Dean Johnson, Dakin Hart, Matthew Kirsch 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit 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 Noguchis 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philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished writings by Hasegawa.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 Hasegawas 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." Flap " The Saburo Hasegawa Reader will be a useful resource for scholars and general readers interested in the multiple connections between post-war Japanese modernism and American Abstract Expressionism."--Aya Louisa McDonald, Professor of Art History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas " The Saburo Hasegawa Reader is the first comprehensive English-language resource on the artistic and theoretical oeuvre of the first proponent of abstract art in Japan, Hasegawa Saburo, one of the most original and inspirational art theoreticians of the twentieth century."--Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Lecturer in Japanese arts, Sainsbury Institute Author Biography Mark Dean Johnson is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.Dakin Hart is Senior Curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Brett Littman Acknowledgments Introduction Dakin Hart and Mark Dean Johnson Note on Translation Saburo Hasegawa: A Brief Biography Dakin Hart and Mark Dean Johnson I. Artist of the Controlled Accident 1. The Controlled AccidentSaburo Hasegawa 2. The Paintings of Saburo HasegawaPaul Mills 3. Saburo Hasegawa: Master of the Controlled AccidentAlan W. Watts 4. Saburo Hasegawa as a Leader in Modern Art in JapanElise Grilli 5. Selected Writings by Saburo Hasegawa Article from the New York Times Haniwa (unpublished poem) Notes on Painting (unpublished essay) My House (reprinted essay) II. Remembrances of Former Students 6. Remembrances of Former California College of Arts and Crafts StudentsBilly Al Bengston and Mel Strawn III. Selected Letters to Isamu Noguchi 7. Selected Letters from Hasegawa to Isamu Noguchi, 1950–1951 IV. Selected Essays by Saburo Hasegawa 8. On Sesshu, 1934 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 9. Sesshu, 1948 (translated by Haruko Kohno) 10. The New Art, 1948 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 11. Conversations with Isamu Noguchi June 8 and 9, 1950 (translated by Yoriko Yamamoto and Mark Dean Johnson) 12. Days with Isamu Noguchi, 1950 (translated by Reiko Tomii) 13. Rambling Words on Song-Yuan Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1950 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 14. Mondrian: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 15. Arp: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 16. Letters from France and America: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 17. Making the Katsura Imperial Villa Abstract, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 18. Calligraphy and New Painting, 1952 (translated by Haruko Kohno) 19. New Photography and Painting, 1953 (translated by Haruko Kohno) 20. The Fate of American Artists, 1955 (translated by Gaku Kondo) 21. Present-Day American Abstract Art, 1955 (translated by Haruko Kohno) 22. Nationalism and Universalism in Japanese Art, 1955 (translated by Haruko Kohno)Notes Details ISBN0520298993 Year 2019 ISBN-10 0520298993 ISBN-13 9780520298996 Pages 175 Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Edited by Dakin Hart DEWEY 709.2 Illustrations 7 color images Author Matthew Kirsch Language English Publication Date 2019-05-14 UK Release Date 2019-05-14 AU Release Date 2019-05-14 NZ Release Date 2019-05-14 US Release Date 2019-05-14 Publisher University of California Press Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159458864;
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ISBN-13: 9780520298996
Book Title: The Saburo Hasegawa Reader
Number of Pages: 175 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Saburo Hasegawa Reader
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Social Sciences, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 272 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Mark Dean Johnson, Dakin Hart
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Format: Paperback