Description |
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Finding the Middle Path / Jeffrey Wechsler -- "Abstraction" in the Traditional Art of East Asia / Tseng Yuho -- With the Suddenness of Creation: Trends of Abstract Painting in Japan and China, 1945-1970 / Alexandra Munroe -- International Abstraction in a National Context: Abstract Painting in Korea, 1910-1965 / Jae-Ryung Roe -- Roundtable Discussion / Don Ahn, Dore Ashton and Chuang Che [et al.] -- From Asian Traditions to Modern Expressions: Abstract Art by Asian Americans, 1945-1970 / Jeffrey Wechsler -- Artists' Biographies / Caroline Goeser and Yuko Higa -- Hybrid Worlds, Singular Visions: Hawaii's Asian American Heritage and Art / Marcia Morse -- Personalizing the Abstract: Asian American Artists in Seattle / Kazuko Nakane -- From Enemy Alien to Zen Master: Japanese American Identity in California During the Postwar Period / Karin Higa |
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A Brief Cultural History of the Chinese in California: From Early Beginnings to the 1970s / Lorraine Dong and Marlon K. Hom -- Nipponism and the Smell of Paint: A Recollection of New York, circa 1958-1961 / Yoshiaki Shimizu -- Reminiscences of Mi Chou: The First Chinese Gallery in America / Frank Fulai Cho |
Summary |
60 artists of the time of Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Mark Tobey who were not, but deserved to be, recognised. Paintings, works on paper and sculptures |
Notes |
Catalogue of a travelling exhibition organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, and the State University of New Jersey |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index |
Subject |
Abstract expressionism -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Abstract -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Abstract -- United States.
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Art, American -- Asian influences.
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Asian American art -- Exhibitions.
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Asian American art.
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
Wechsler, Jeffrey.
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
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LC no. |
96027195 |
ISBN |
0810919761 (clothbound) |
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0810926822 (mus. pbk.) |
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