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    Dakin Hart, Mark Dean Johnson (eds.)

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    Associate Editor MATTHEW KIRSCH

    The Saburo 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 elements of European abstraction in Japan in the mid 1930s. He also worked in diverse media including oil and ink painting, photography, and printmaking. Hasegawa was a theorist and widely published essayist, curator, teacher, and multilingual conversationalist.

    “A useful resource for scholars and general readers interested in the multiple connections between postwar Japanese modernism and American abstract expressionism.” AYA LOUISA MCDONALD, Professor of Art History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    “The first comprehensive English-language resource on the artistic and theoretical oeuvre of the first proponent of abstract art in Japan, Saburo Hasegawa, one of the most original and inspirational art theoreticians of the twentieth century.” EUGENIA BOGDANOVA-KUMMER, Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage, Sainsbury Institute

    MARK DEAN JOHNSON is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.
    DAKIN HART is Senior Curator of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.

    Disciplines:

    Art  Art  Asian Studies 

    Language: English

    ISBN:
    EPUB 978-0-520-97092-2
    Mobi 978-0-520-97092-2
    Paperback 978-0-520-29899-6
    PDF 978-0-520-97092-2

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70

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    How to cite this book
    Hart D. & Johnson M. (eds.) 2019. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70
    Hart, D. and Johnson, M.D., 2019. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70
    Hart, Dand M D Johnson. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader. University of California Press, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70
    Hart, D., & Johnson, M. D. (2019). The Saburo Hasegawa Reader. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70
    Hart, Dakin, and Mark Dean Johnson. 2019. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.70




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