Pictures of Belonging
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"Pictures of Belonging showcases more than one hundred objects created by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Minâe Okubo. These trailblazing American women of Japanese descent-part of the pre-World War II generation of artists in California-were committed to exploring art as a productive means of storytelling, but their achievements are rarely recognized in the pages of American history. The book puts the artists' works in dialogue with one another for the first time-creating new conversations on citizenship, community, and agency in the historical record during an era of exclusion for Japanese Americans in particular and Asian Americans as a whole"--…mehr

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"Pictures of Belonging showcases more than one hundred objects created by Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Minâe Okubo. These trailblazing American women of Japanese descent-part of the pre-World War II generation of artists in California-were committed to exploring art as a productive means of storytelling, but their achievements are rarely recognized in the pages of American history. The book puts the artists' works in dialogue with one another for the first time-creating new conversations on citizenship, community, and agency in the historical record during an era of exclusion for Japanese Americans in particular and Asian Americans as a whole"--
Autorenporträt
ShiPu Wang is the Coats Family Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History at University of California, Merced. He is a former editorial board member of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's American Art and now serves on the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Board of Commissioners. Wang is the author of Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi and The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa . Wang was also the curator and editor of Chiura Obata: An American Modern.