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Chiura Obata : an American modern / ShiPu Wang ; with contributions by Masuji Fujii, Asako Katsura, and Greg Robinson.

Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass in...

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Main Author: Wang, ShiPu (Author)
Other Authors: Fujii, Masuji (Contributor), Katsura, Asako (Contributor), Robinson, Greg, 1966- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Obata, Chiura > Exhibitions.
Japanese American artists > Exhibitions.
Obata, Chiura.
Japanese American artists.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Chiura Obata: American illustrator / Greg Robinson
  • Obata's pictorial cosmopolitanism in Lake Basin in the High Sierra and Mother Earth / Asako Katsura
  • Moonlight over topaz : picturing displacement in the Japanese American internment / ShiPu Wang
  • Plates
  • Writings by Chiura Obata
  • Excerpt of an oral history interview with Chiura Obata, 1965 / Masuji Fujii, Kimi Kodani Hill, and Akiko Shibagaki.

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