Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953-
2. Hart, Dakin
3. Kirsch, Matt
4. Hasegawa, Soburō, 1906-1957.

Description

1. xxxi, 170 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "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philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished writings by Hasegawa.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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957 > Archives
2. Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957 > Criticism and interpretation
3. Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
4. Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957 > Friends and associates
5. Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957
6. Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
7. 1900-1999
8. Art, Japanese > 20th century
9. Art, Japanese
10. Friendship

Genre/Form

1. Archives.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Saburo Hasegawa : a brief biography -- "Artist of the controlled accident," 1957 Hasegawa memorial volume -- Remembrances of former students from California College of Arts and Crafts -- Selected letters by Hasegawa to Isamu Noguchi, 1950-1951 -- Selected essays by Saburo Hasegawa, 1934-1955.

Call number

1. JQE 19-727

Note

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. The Saburo Hasegawa reader / edited by Mark Dean Johnson and Dakin Hart ; with associate editor Matthew Kirsch.

Publisher

1. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Johnson, Mark Dean, 1953- editor.
2. Hart, Dakin, editor.
3. Kirsch, Matt, editor.
4. Hasegawa, Soburō, 1906-1957. Works. Selections. Container of (work)

Other form:

1. Online version: Saburo Hasegawa reader Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520970922 (DLC) 2019001372

Related to

1. Complemented by (work): Changing and unchanging things. Oakland, California : published in association with University of California Press, [2019] 9780520298224 (DLC) 2018054059 (OCoLC)1029801716

LCCN

1. 2018061421

Other standard identifier

1. 40029314770

ISBN

1. 9780520298996 paperback alkaline paper
2. 0520298993 paperback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JQE 19-727