Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.
Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.
KAREN FANG is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes for museums and film festivals around the world. She is a professor of English at the University of Houston, and her previous books include Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film and Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship.
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PROLOGUE NOTE ON NAMES AND TRANSLATIONS PART I. NOT JUST A PAPER SON 1 Not Too Far from Alcatraz . . . 2 S.S. China 3 Paper Son 4 Look Get/Wong Sai Po 5 Angel Island, Devil’s House 6 Alien, Excluded from Citizenship PART II. BECOMING TYRUS 7 Boy Scouts, Baseball, and Apple Pie 8 Playing Hooky 9 “That City of Celestials” 10 “You Don’t Want to Paint This Shit” 11 The Otis Years 12 “An Outstanding Student Who Warrants Reentry” 13 Dragon’s Den, Artists’ Lair
PART III. PROFESSION: ARTIST 14 Ruth 15 Thank God for the WPA! 16 A Family Blooms on Juanita Avenue 17 Man of the Forest 18 War (“I Am Chinese”) 19 “Be a Good Boy” PART IV. CHINA’S GREATEST GIFT TO WESTERN CULTURE 20 On the Warner Lot 21 Sunland, or Art of the Pacific 22 Model Minority? 23 America’s Favorite Card Designer PART V. ALWAYS LOOK UP 24 Go Fly a Kite 25 Faan heang haa (The Return) 26 An Empty Place in the Sky 27 Legend 28 A Well-Lived Life Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index PLATES FOLLOW PAGE
PROLOGUE NOTE ON NAMES AND TRANSLATIONS PART I. NOT JUST A PAPER SON 1 Not Too Far from Alcatraz . . . 2 S.S. China 3 Paper Son 4 Look Get/Wong Sai Po 5 Angel Island, Devil’s House 6 Alien, Excluded from Citizenship PART II. BECOMING TYRUS 7 Boy Scouts, Baseball, and Apple Pie 8 Playing Hooky 9 “That City of Celestials” 10 “You Don’t Want to Paint This Shit” 11 The Otis Years 12 “An Outstanding Student Who Warrants Reentry” 13 Dragon’s Den, Artists’ Lair
PART III. PROFESSION: ARTIST 14 Ruth 15 Thank God for the WPA! 16 A Family Blooms on Juanita Avenue 17 Man of the Forest 18 War (“I Am Chinese”) 19 “Be a Good Boy” PART IV. CHINA’S GREATEST GIFT TO WESTERN CULTURE 20 On the Warner Lot 21 Sunland, or Art of the Pacific 22 Model Minority? 23 America’s Favorite Card Designer PART V. ALWAYS LOOK UP 24 Go Fly a Kite 25 Faan heang haa (The Return) 26 An Empty Place in the Sky 27 Legend 28 A Well-Lived Life Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index PLATES FOLLOW PAGE
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