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Title Asian traditions/modern expressions : Asian American artists and abstraction, 1945-1970 / edited by Jeffrey Wechsler
Published New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1997

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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
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.
Art, Abstract -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Art, Abstract -- United States.
Art, American -- Asian influences.
Asian American art -- Exhibitions.
Asian American art.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Wechsler, Jeffrey.
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
LC no. 96027195
ISBN 0810919761 (clothbound)
0810926822 (mus. pbk.)