Chiura Obata's Topaz Moon

Chiura Obata's Topaz Moon

Author: Chiura Obata

Publisher: Heyday

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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Presents the artist's sketches, sumi paintings, and watercolors depicting the austerity, hardship, hope, and beauty he discovered in the internment camp, and includes a collection of his interviews and correspondence.


Obata's Yosemite

Obata's Yosemite

Author: Chiura Obata

Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This volume includes 80 full-color reproductions of Obata's pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and day-by-day narratives woven through his correspondences.


The Four Immigrants Manga

The Four Immigrants Manga

Author: Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1611729661

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A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America. Originally published in Japanese in San Francisco in 1931, The Four Immigrants Manga is Henry Kiyama’s visual chronicle of his immi­grant experiences in the United States. Drawn in a classic gag-strip comic-book style, this heartfelt tale—rediscovered and translated by manga expert Frederik L. Schodt—is a fascinating, entertaining depiction of early Asian American struggles.


Art of Engagement

Art of Engagement

Author: Peter Selz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-01-09

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520240529

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'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.


Citizen 13660

Citizen 13660

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Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780295959894

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Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html


The Art of Gaman

The Art of Gaman

Author: Delphine Hirasuna

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781580086899

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"A photographic collection of arts and crafts made in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, along with a historical overview of the camps"--Provided by publisher.


Made in California

Made in California

Author: Stephanie Barron

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0520337654

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This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.


Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar

Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780618216208

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A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.