Signs of Home
The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita
Seiten
2011
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99100-9 (ISBN)
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99100-9 (ISBN)
Contextualizes Tokita's paintings and diary within the art community and Japanese America
A deeply moving account of life before, during, and after the Japanese internment as witnessed by a great Seattle artist
Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's progressive artists. On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed Tokita started a diary that he vowed to keep until the war ended. In it he recorded with expressiveness and insight the events, fears, rumors, and restrictions—and his own emotional turmoil—before and during his detention at Minidoka.
This beautiful and poignant biography of Tokita uses his paintings and wartime diary to vividly illustrate the experiences, uncertainties, joys, and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II internment and the more optimistic times that preceded it. It contextualizes Tokita's paintings and diary within the art community and Japanese America and introduces readers to an amazing man who embraced life despite living through challenging and disheartening times.
A deeply moving account of life before, during, and after the Japanese internment as witnessed by a great Seattle artist
Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's progressive artists. On the day Pearl Harbor was bombed Tokita started a diary that he vowed to keep until the war ended. In it he recorded with expressiveness and insight the events, fears, rumors, and restrictions—and his own emotional turmoil—before and during his detention at Minidoka.
This beautiful and poignant biography of Tokita uses his paintings and wartime diary to vividly illustrate the experiences, uncertainties, joys, and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II internment and the more optimistic times that preceded it. It contextualizes Tokita's paintings and diary within the art community and Japanese America and introduces readers to an amazing man who embraced life despite living through challenging and disheartening times.
Barbara Johns is a Seattle-based art historian and curator. Her many books include Paul Horiuchi: East and West and The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness. Barbara Johns is an art historian and curator. Her previous books include Paul Horiuchi: East and West, Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest, and Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty.
| Reihe/Serie | Signs of Home |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Stephen H. Sumida |
| Zusatzinfo | 80 illus., 40 in color |
| Verlagsort | Seattle |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1066 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-295-99100-3 / 0295991003 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-99100-9 / 9780295991009 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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