Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa
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Author: Higa, Karin
This book brings together essential writings by the trailblazing art historian and curator Karin Higa. The selected essays focus on the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans in Western US states to specially constructed concentration camps and the artistic production and communities that took root within them. This book reveals how Higa’s conviction that art and lived experience are indissolubly linked was at the root of her methodological modelling of an Asian American art history. While exploring issues of identity and immigration, Higa recuperates significant artists and oeuvres from historical neglect and engages contemporary artists to examine how art acts as a source for and transmitter of cultural identity.Moving between portrayals of artists’ networks in the camps and Little Tokyo communities and case studies of oeuvres and biographies, Higa recovers vital art practices and hidden histories of creative struggle and efflorescence. In the process, she maps – across ethnic, geographic, and stylistic boundaries – the fertile creative milieux of individual practices and communities. Higa shows how artists of Asian descent have negotiated the divide between the United States and their ancestral homes by using their freedom as artists to define their culture more broadly.
ISBN 9781954947023. Dancing Foxes Press. hb. 416 pages. 150 colour, 80 b/w ills. 23 x 17 cm.
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This book brings together essential writings by the trailblazing art historian and curator Karin Higa. The selected essays focus on the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans in Western US states to specially constructed concentration camps and the artistic production and communities that took root within them. This book reveals how Higa’s conviction that art and lived experience are indissolubly linked was at the root of her methodological modelling of an Asian American art history. While exploring issues of identity and immigration, Higa recuperates significant artists and oeuvres from historical neglect and engages contemporary artists to examine how art acts as a source for and transmitter of cultural identity.Moving between portrayals of artists’ networks in the camps and Little Tokyo communities and case studies of oeuvres and biographies, Higa recovers vital art practices and hidden histories of creative struggle and efflorescence. In the process, she maps – across ethnic, geographic, and stylistic boundaries – the fertile creative milieux of individual practices and communities. Higa shows how artists of Asian descent have negotiated the divide between the United States and their ancestral homes by using their freedom as artists to define their culture more broadly.
ISBN 9781954947023. Dancing Foxes Press. hb. 416 pages. 150 colour, 80 b/w ills. 23 x 17 cm.
available