Artists
Jaishri Abichandani
Articles
- Futurized Worldview: Art as a Form of Soft Power by Diana McClure
- Jaishri Abichandani: Wonder Kali by Ysabelle Cheung
- The Portrait is Political by Miss Rosen
- Radical Love Exhibition
Books
Between Spirit and Magic by Call Number: N6496.3.C6 H66 2019ISBN: 9781906576592Publication Date: 2019
Videos
Freedom. Safety. NOW! from SAWCC on Vimeo.
Dabin Ahn
Articles
- Artist Insights: Dabin Ahn
- A Sculptural Sleight of Hand by Skyler Aikerson
- Five Questions with Dabin Ahn by Nicole Stoddar
Videos
AIKO, also known as Lady Aiko
Articles
- Japanese Street Artist Aiko Graces Eugene With Geisha Mural
- Japanese Garden by Lady Aiko
- Lady Aiko by Jean Gallard
Anida Yoeu Ali
Articles
- Art, Activism, and Agitation: Anida Yoeu Ali by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- II. Anida Yoeu Ali
- Anida Yoeu Ali: In the Encounter by Kate O'Hara
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Unchartered Distance: Performing in between Here and There by Anida Yoeu Ali
Books
Asian America by
An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to politics, covering key historical and cultural developments that enable students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century. The primary sources, organized around keywords, often concern multiple hemispheres and movements, making this compendium valuable for a number of historical, ethnic, and cultural study undergraduate programs.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780300195446Publication Date: 2017-01-10
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A Life Made by Hand by
Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an influential and award-winning Japanese American sculptor and devoted activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. "A Life Made by Hand" tells the story of this pioneering artist whose work is collected in major museums around the world. Inspired by the world around her, Asawa saw beauty in the ordinary: the webs of spiders, wings of insects, and drops of water found in the garden on the farm where she spent her childhood. She studied at the historic Black Mountain College, an unusual school filled with brilliant thinkers like herself. "An artist," she said, "is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special." Andrea D'Aquino's lush collages and engaging text celebrate Asawa's remarkable career, and collectively tell a story that will appeal to and inspire young readers and art lovers.
Call Number: 730.92 DAQISBN: 9781616898366Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Ruth Asawa by
Known for her extensive body of intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and form through her emphasis on lightness and transparency. Asawa began her now iconic looped-wire works in the late 1940s while still a student at Black Mountain College. Their unique structure was inspired by a 1947 trip to Mexico, during which local craftsmen taught her how to create baskets out of wire. While seemingly unrelated to the lessons of color and composition taught in Josef Albers's legendary Basic Design course, these works, as she explained, are firmly grounded in his teachings in their use of unexpected materials and their elision of figure and ground. Presenting an important and timely overview of the artist's work, this monograph brings together a broad selection of her sculptures, works on paper, and more. Together the body of work demonstrates the centrality of Asawa's innovative practice to the art-historical legacy of the twentieth century. In addition to an incredible group of photographs of the artist and her work by Imogen Cunningham, a selection of rare archival materials will illustrate a chronology of the artist's life and work. Featuring an extensive text by Tiffany Bell which explores the artist's influences, history, and, most importantly, the work itself, as well as a significant essay by Robert Storr discussing Asawa's work in relation to mid-twentieth century art history, culture, and scientific theory.
Call Number: N6537.A74 A4 2018ISBN: 9781941701683Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe by
Although less known outside North America, Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa is an artist of vital importance to modern art. "Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe," which accompanies the first exhibition of Asawa's work to be staged in public galleries in Europe, introduces European audiences to both Asawa's powerful art - including her signature hanging sculptures in looped and tied wire - and her pioneering education practice. It positions her expansive ethos - her self-identification as 'a citizen of the universe' and belief that art education can be life enriching for everyone - as a catalyst for creative forward-thinking in the 21st century. Focusing on a dynamic and formative period in her life from 1945 to 1980, this book gives readers a unique experience of the artist and her work, exploring her legacy from a European perspective and positioning her as an abstract sculptor crucial to American modernism. It is a wonderful celebration of her holistic integration of art, education and community engagement, through which she called for a revolutionary and inclusive vision of art's role in society.
Call Number: N6537.A74 A4 2022ISBN: 9780500025420Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Ruth Asawa: Life's Work by
Bringing together examples from across Asawa's full and extraordinary career, this expansive volume serves as an unprecedented reorientation of her sculptures within the historical context of 20th-century art. In particular, it includes careful consideration of Asawa's advocacy for arts education in public schools, while simultaneously focusing on her vital--and long under-recognized--contributions to the field of sculpture. Insightful essays explore the intersection of formal experimentation and identity to offer a fresh assessment of this celebrated artist. Richly illustrated with exquisite new installation views, "Ruth Asawa: Life's Work" introduces original scholarship that traces the dynamic evolution of form in the artist's work.
Call Number: NB237.A82 A4 2019ISBN: 0300242697Publication Date: 2019-04-09
The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa by
The scope and stature of Ruth Asawa's work are brought into brilliant focus in this superb book, created to accompany the first complete retrospective of the artist's career. Beginning with her earliest works--drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College--this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts. "The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa" establishes the importance of Asawa's work within the larger national context of artists who redefined art as a way of thinking and acting in the world rather than as merely a stylistic practice. A chronology and a collection of essays by noted scholars highlight Asawa's complex relationship to American art and Asian American history and provide engrossing biographical information. In her lifelong experimentations with wire, especially its capacity to balance open and closed forms, Asawa invented a powerful new vocabulary. Committed to enhancing the quality of daily life through art produced within the home, she contributed a unique perspective to the formal explorations of twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Working in a variety of non-traditional media, Asawa performed a series of uncanny metamorphoses, leading viewers into a deeper awareness of natural forms by revealing their structural properties. Through her artistic practice, Asawa reconnects with the Buddhist ethos of her parents, transforming the commonplace into metaphors for life processes themselves.
Call Number: N6537.A74 A4 2006ISBN: 9780520250451Publication Date: 2006-11-18
Videos
Anita Chang
Articles
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Anita Chang’s "Tongues of Heaven" Asks, What Is Lost When a Language Disappears?
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Anita Chang Oral History Interview by Lauren Smith
Films
62 Years and 65000 Miles Between by Publication Date: 2004Amidst the political upheavals of a nation and the world, the filmmaker navigates cultural, geographical and linguistic distances in search of wisdom and hope from her 100 year-old Taiwanese activist grandmother (Ama).
Joyful Life by Publication Date: 2007"Joyful Life" is a feature documentary in collaboration with Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) patients residing at Taiwan’s Lo-Sheng (“Joyful Life”), one of the few remaining sanatoriums in the world, on the verge of disappearing.
Tongues of Heaven by Publication Date: 2013With 96% of the world’s population speaking only 4% of the world’s languages, what does it mean to speak your mother tongue in this age of language homogenization? Set in Taiwan and Hawai'i, territories where Austronesian languages are spoken, the experimental feature documentary "Tongues of Heaven" focuses on the questions, desires, and challenges of young indigenous peoples to learn the languages of their forebears — languages that are endangered or facing extinction.
Zheng Chongbin
Articles
- Becoming Landscape: Diffractive Unfoldings of Light, Space, and Matter in the New Work of Zheng Chongbin by Maya Kóvskaya
- Liquid Space: A Conversation with Zheng Chongbin by Lisa Claypool
Videos
Artists continued
Jes Fan
Articles
- Mother Is a Woman: Jes Fan by Billy Tang
- Precious Wounds by Mimi Wong
- States of Flux: A Conversation with Jes Fan by Jan Garden Castro
Videos
Jes Fan: Infectious Beauty | Art21 "New York Close Up" from Art21 on Vimeo.
Ming Fay
Articles
- Ming Fay: From Money Trees to Monkey Pots by Jonathan Goodman
- A Decorative Reading of Nature: Ming Fay by Jonathan Goodman
Videos
Think!Chinatown Artist Profile: Ming Fay and Epoxy Art Group from Think!Chinatown on Vimeo.
Cory Feder
Articles
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Cory Feder’s beautiful and expressive illustrations are born out of feelings of otherness by Jyni Ong
Music
Videos
Tiri Kananuruk
Articles
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Breaking the System: Sound and Technology in the Art of Tiri Kananuruk by Celine Katzman
Videos
DeepTalking - Highlight from Tiri on Vimeo.
Tiriee Kananurak from The Billboard Creative on Vimeo.
Kimsooja
Articles
- Kimsooja － A Cosmic Egg at The Fair by Caroline Ha Thuc
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Aesthetic Autophony and the Night: Blanchot, Kafka, Kimsooja, Burial by Stefanie Heine
Books
Kimsooja: Archive of Mind by
Part of an annual series of monographic exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, this fascinating volume features the multidisciplinary conceptual artist Kimsooja. Her unique oeuvre combines locality and universality in videos, photographs, performances, and site-specific installations. She explores the human condition while addressing cultural and social issues, including migration, refugees, opposing identities, and the environment, investigating these concepts through multiple genres, materials, and methodologies. This catalogue focuses on acts of creation and processes, as the exhibition made active use of viewer participation. Includes a conversation between Kimsooja and Hou Hanru and essays by Steven Henry Madoff, KimSung Won and Suh Younghee.
Call Number: N7369.K5746 A4 2017ISBN: 9788963031637Publication Date: 2017
Kimsooja: Unfolding by
The South Korean contemporary artist Kimsooja (*1957 in Taegu) has attracted a great deal of attention for her sculptures, performances, and interventions captured on video, as well as for her numerous solo exhibitions around the world. One of the fundamental concepts behind her work is the way in which she examines the everyday aspects of life and human exchange in her two- or three-dimensional works of art. A central element of her work has been the bottari, a traditional silk bedcover that also serves as a traveling bundle, protecting one's worldly goods. In Korea, these are traditionally hand-sewn-women's work that spans generations and unites individuals.Doing laundry or sewing, as well as a series of the artist's symbolic performances-such as her role as "Needle Woman" or "Beggar Woman"-are at the core of Kimsooja's work, in which she also reflects on the female human condition. This is the first monograph to present an overview of the artist's most significant works across three decades.
Call Number: N7369.K56 A4 2013ISBN: 9783775732345Publication Date: 2014-02-28
Kimsooja: [to breathe = respirare] by
The Korean artist Kimsooja is best known for her Bottari sculptures, made from colorful matrimonial bed covers, and for her video installations. The site-specific video "To Breathe/Respirare, " shown at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice immediately preceding productions of "Die Walkure" and "I Quatro Rusteghi," presents a spectrum of colors pulsing and gaining momentum until they reach the frenetic rhythm of the artist's breathing. "Kimsooja" includes a wide selection of work and of critical essays published over the past 10 years by such writers as Nicolas Bourriaud, Bernhard Fibicher, Gerald Matt, David Morgan, Keiji Nakamura and Harald Szeemann, as well as new contributions by Eleanor Heartney, Francesca Pasini and Angela Vettese. It is at once a monograph and a critical anthology.
Call Number: N6537.K515 K55 2006ISBN: 9788881585885Publication Date: 2006-10-15
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Articles
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The Anxious Art Of Japanese Painter (And 'Enemy Alien') Yasuo Kuniyoshi by Susan Stamberg
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For Heritage Month, Remembering 'One of a Kind' Painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Meet the Iconic Japanese-American Artist Whose Work Hasn’t Been Exhibited in Decades by Roger Catlin
Books
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi by
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi is a long-overdue study of this complex artist's career. Born in Japan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) arrived in the United States as a teenager and studied art in New York. Although thoroughly integrated into American life, immigration laws prevented him from becoming an American citizen. The early success he achieved with his distinctive modern figural works developed into a compelling and powerful late style. This new survey, the first full retrospective of his works since the Whitney Show of 1948, features seventy of Kuniyoshi's best paintings and drawings, chosen from leading public and private collections in America and Japan. Tom Wolf is professor of art history, Bard College, New York, and the leading Kuniyoshi scholar.
Call Number: N6537.K83 W65 2015ISBN: 9781907804632Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Becoming American?: The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi by
"A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all." On December 8, 1941, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) awoke to find himself branded an "enemy alien" by the U.S. government in the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The historical crisis forced Kuniyoshi, an émigré Japanese with a distinguished career in American art, to rethink his pictorial strategies and to confront questions of loyalty, assimilation, national and racial identity that he had carefully avoided in his prewar art. As an immigrant who had proclaimed himself to be as "American as the next fellow," the realization of his now fractured and precarious status catalyzed the development of an emphatic and conscious identity construct that would underlie Kuniyoshi's art and public image for the remainder of his life. Drawing on previously unexamined primary sources, Becoming American? is the first scholarly book in over two decades to offer an in-depth and critical analysis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi's pivotal works, including his "anti-Japan" posters and radio broadcasts for U.S. propaganda, and his coded and increasingly enigmatic paintings, within their historical contexts. Through the prism of an identity crisis, the book examines Kuniyoshi's imagery and writings as vital means for him to engage, albeit often reluctantly and ambivalently, in discussions about American democracy and ideals at a time when racial and national origins were grounds for mass incarceration and discrimination. It is also among the first scholarly studies to investigate the activities of Americans of Japanese descent outside the internment camps and the intense pressures with which they had to deal in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. As an art historical book, Becoming American? foregrounds broader historical debates of what constituted American art, a central preoccupation of Kuniyoshi's artistic milieu. It illuminates the complicating factors of race, diasporas, and ideology in the construction of an American cultural identity. Timely and provocative, the book historicizes and elucidates the ways in which "minority" artists have been, and continue to be, both championed and marginalized for their cultural and ethnic "difference" within the twentieth-century American art canon.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780824834180Publication Date: 2011-05-31
Kuniyoshi; Catalogue of Kuniyoshi's Posthumous Exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, March 20- April 25, 1954 by Call Number: N6537.K9 K7Publication Date: 1954
Videos
Yo-Yo Lin
Articles
- Yo-Yo Lin by Lutte Collective
- Recollecting: Gathering Non-Western Language for Disability by Yo-Yo Lin and Sean Lee
Videos
the walls of my room are curved - full performance official from yoyo lin on Vimeo.