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Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Library of Congress
"In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II." From the left sidebar select Collection Highlights for a selection of images and About This Collection for a more in-depth overview, plus see images of the entire first edition of Born Free and Equal, Adams's publication based on his work at Manzanar. Also see the Collection Connection section for a list of classroom resources.

Go to Museum Resource: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
Getty Museum
Online presentation of a 2007 exhibition highlighting "a dynamic phase of avant-garde art in postwar Japan, which was characterized by self-reflection and multimedia experimentation." With 7 topics -- 1) Experimental Workshop/Jikeen Kōbō; 2) Gutai Art Association; 3) Sōgetsu Art Center; 4) Fluxus/Tokyo; 5) Butoh and Angura Theaters; 6) Bikyōtō; 7) E.A.T. -- and nine works from the exhibition. See the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION link at the right for a timeline of postwar Japanese art movements (.pdf file).

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/postwar_japan/
Art of the Showa Period Lesson Plan - Misty Day in Nikkō Woodcut
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
See site for lesson plans on this museum object.

Go to Museum Resource: https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/k12-lesson-plans#/k12/12305
Creating a Mixed Media Landscape: Inspired by the Japanese Woodblock Prints of Kawase Haui [PDF]
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Printmaking art activity with the following goals: 1) To create a Master Study of the print by Kawase Hasui, 2) To explore printmaking and watercolor painting techniques, 3) To experiment with the compositional components of a successful landscape painting or mixed media piece.

Go to Museum Resource: https://content.sbma.net/education/lessonPlans/pdf/22Hasui%20mixed%20media%20ar...
Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project
Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project
"Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all." With background essays examining the causes of the incarceration, along with lesson plans, a timeline, glossary, and bibliography. The ARCHIVE section holds more than 270 visual/oral histories (more than 500 hours of recorded interviews) and nearly 9,000 historic photographs and documents.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.densho.org/
Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy's Story
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
"This unit presents the illustrated testimony of Akihiro Takahashi, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Illustrations by Goro Shikoku, with English translation by Yuki Tanaka."

Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/groundzero1945_2/index.html
Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
"These drawings and paintings by Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb were created more than a quarter century after the bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. They are provided by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum." The ESSAY section examines Ground Zero 1945 using the images by survivors of the atomic bomb blast; the VISUAL NARRATIVES section features the story of one survivor who tells her story through images.

Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/groundzero1945/index.html
Gutai: Splendid Playground
Guggenheim Museum
The first U.S. museum retrospective exhibition ever devoted to Gutai, the most influential artists’ collective and artistic movement in postwar Japan and among the most important international avant-garde movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition aims to demonstrate Gutai’s extraordinary range of bold and innovative creativity; to examine its aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social, and political context of postwar Japan and the West; and to further establish Gutai in an expanded history of modern art. Includes audio tours and activity guides. See also: Teaching Materials.

Go to Museum Resource: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/gutai-splendid-playground
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