{"product_id":"the-other-american-moderns-9780271077734","title":"The Other American Moderns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines the works of four early to mid-twentieth-century American artists of Asian descent. Focuses on their critical engagement with notions of American modernism, and illuminates a transcultural positioning in modern American culture that predates our contemporary discourse on race and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extremely well researched and written with a lively touch, Wang’s book will make you rethink the accepted and traditional narratives of early twentieth-century art in the United States, either as you were taught it or as you now teach it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePanorama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A foundational contribution\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ethat enlarges the critical scope of twentieth-century American art history. Through richly conceived case studies, this book foregrounds pictorial strategies employed by four artists of Japanese ancestry active in the United States prior to the Second World War. These artists dynamically engage with American society by speaking to issues of social injustice and by affirming allegiance with groups historically cast as this nation’s ‘Others.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Margo Machida,author of \u003ci\u003eUnsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The result of years of hard archival digging and thoughtful looking, \u003ci\u003eThe Other American Moderns \u003c\/i\u003erecovers the works of four special Japanese American artists. It asks us to rethink what it meant to be an American of Asian descent during the Exclusion Era and charts the artistic savvy—and the courage—it took to express their attachments and commitments to a society that usually saw them as alien. In today’s political climate, especially, this is an urgent and much-needed book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Anthony W. Lee,author of \u003ci\u003eA Shoemaker's Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Other American Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e enriches our understanding of twentieth-century modernism with insightful analyses of photographs and paintings by artists of Asian descent active in the United States. These artists, who interacted with racially and culturally diverse communities, used their images to construct cosmopolitan identities and to establish cross-racial alliances. Beautifully written, every page offers an eye-opening interpretation of modernism, race, and nation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Cécile Whiting,author of \u003ci\u003ePop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A novel and extremely interesting project that not only brings forward a set of important but largely forgotten figures, but uses them to tell a larger story about modernism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Greg Robinson,author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ShiPu Wang provides an exemplary, and much needed, account of the important contributions of Asian American artists to the art history of American modernism, challenging how and why that history was originally written and broadening its cultural and sociopolitical scope. Delving into the complex, collaborative, and often ambivalent relationships of cross-racial affinity, diasporic conditions, and national identity, \u003ci\u003eThe Other American Moderns \u003c\/i\u003eis a refreshingly nuanced, well-written, and wonderfully illustrated study, one that promises to spark future research and scholarship on ‘historically overlooked minority artists’ in America.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Erika Doss,author of \u003ci\u003eBenton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What did it mean for Japanese\/Asian artists to be artistically modern \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e create a space for themselves as Americans—all while denied the rights of citizenship? In his compelling study, ShiPu Wang illuminates the personal, aesthetic, and sociopolitical implications of this question. He features diasporic communities of producers, commentators, and patrons across the nation,revealing their intricate negotiations of power, social differences, and personal identities. Great to read. Great to teach.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ellen Wiley Todd,author of \u003ci\u003eThe \"New Woman\" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] ambitious and pioneering book, which serves to cement Wang’s reputation as one of the leading scholars of Asian American art.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tom Wolf \u003ci\u003eWinterthur Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ShiPu Wang has made an important contribution to our understanding of American modernism in \u003ci\u003eThe Other American Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e. His study of Frank Matsura, Eitarō Ishigaki, Hideo Noda, and Miki Hayakawa reminds us how limited our knowledge of this movement has been without adequate consideration of Asian American artists.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joann Moser \u003ci\u003eAsian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tGoing “Native” in an American Borderland: Frank S. Matsura’s Photographic Miscegenation\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tBy Proxy of His Black Heroes: Eitarō Ishigaki and the Battles for Equality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tWe Are Scottsboro Boys: Hideo Noda’s Visual Rhetoric of Transracial Solidarity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tIn Search of Miki: Hayakawa, a Californian Cosmopolitan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Concerning Exclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400796873047,"sku":"9780271077734","price":62.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-other-american-moderns-9780271077734","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}