THE FLOATING WORLD OF NEW YORK
THE FLOATING WORLD OF NEW YORK Japanese Art, Community, and Politics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century What Did “Japanese Art” Mean in New York? Making Modern Art in an Immigrant City Who Counted as an American Artist? Art, Work, and Politics War, Incarceration, and Beginning Again RESEARCH, SOURCES, AND CREDITS Unknown artist, […]
Japanese Artists in New York City – Artistic Traces from the 1910s to the 1940s –
Japanese Artists in New York City – Artistic Traces from the 1910s to the 1940s – Introduction Visit Exhibits Timeline Image Archive References Curator Talks The Gacho-Kai group photo at the exhibition site. In the center of the front row is Kotato Gado(T.K. Gado), and Yasuo Kuniyoshi is on the right side of the front […]
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Issei
ISSEI Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers Created in 1980 by Japanese photographer Hiroyuki “Tora” Inoue, these portraits capture New York’s Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants whose lives helped shape the city’s Japanese community but often remained unseen. Nearly forty-five years later, most of this remarkable body of work is now brought […]
Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
Lecture on Exhibiting Japan in Mid-Century New York by Dr. Angus Lockyer, Rhode Island School of Design
In this lecture, historian Angus Lockyer examines Japan’s participation in the 1939–40 and 1964–65 New York World’s Fairs. He explores how Japan’s pavilions and exhibitions combined traditional culture with modern achievement while responding to the very different diplomatic circumstances of the prewar and postwar periods. Placing the Japanese exhibits within the broader history of international […]