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| Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar |
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| Library of Congress
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"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/ | |
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| Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 |
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| Getty Museum
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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/ | |
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| Creating a Mixed Media Landscape: Inspired by the Japanese Woodblock Prints of Kawase Haui [PDF] |
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| Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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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... | |
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| Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project |
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| Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project
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"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/ | |
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| Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy's Story |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"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 | |
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| Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"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 | |
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| Gutai: Splendid Playground |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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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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| Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics Interactive |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Two interactives follow Noguchi's three journeys to Japan and introduce the Japanese ceramic artists with whom he interacted. Noguchi's international acclaim admitted him to diverse spheres of the art world in postwar Japan. The Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi associated were also pursuing profound questions of personal and artistic identity in the aftermath of war, although they chose varying paths to do so. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/noguchi/default.htm | |
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| Japan! culture + hyperculture |
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| The Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge
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"The Kennedy Center festival, JAPAN! culture + hyperculture, brings together more than 100 performances, workshops and student and family events during February 2008. This interactive passport, or iPass, is designed to provide pre- and post-visit information and activities for students, classrooms and families." With information on the following topics: Art, Theater, Dance, Music, Robots, Manga, Anime, and Installations.
Go to Museum Resource: https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/series/VideoStories/japan | |
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| Japanese American National Museum: Collections Online |
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| Japanese American National Museum
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Featuring selected highlights from the museum's permanent collection of more than 60,000 artifacts -- including diaries, letters, and other documents -- as well as photographs and artworks. Many of these document the lives of Japanese Americans detained in concentration camps during World War II.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.janm.org/collections/ | |
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| Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto: Japanese Fashion in the Twentieth Century |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An introduction to Japanese fashion since the 1960s, with a focus on the designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto. With 10 examples of the artists' works from the museum's collection.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jafa/hd_jafa.htm | |
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| Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings and Prints |
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| Pacific Asia Museum of USC
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Paintings and prints from the Edo period to the late 20th century. The inclusion of characters such as Godjira (Godzilla), Doraemon, and the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke makes this an especially fun unit for students. Text essays with images on the following topics: 1) Tradition; 2) Reality; 3) Imagination. With an Edo-period timeline, glossary of related terms, lesson plans for teachers, and a "Random Monster Generator" activity for students.
Go to Museum Resource: https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/exhibitions/past/online-exhibition-nature-of-... | |
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| The Noguchi Museum |
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| The Noguchi Museum
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A comprehensive resource about the life and work of the Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (b. Los Angeles, 1904; d. New York, 1988). See NOGUCHI'S LIFE & WORK for images of Noguchi's work, from sculpture and furniture to gardens, fountains, theater sets, monuments, and memorials. The RESEARCH & RESOURCES section has texts by and about Noguchi, available for reading online. See EDUCATION > STUDENTS & TEACHERS for a Curriculum Guide; the PERMANENT COLLECTIONS section features 274 objects from the museum's collection.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.noguchi.org/ | |
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| On Kawara—Silence |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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Online exhibit of "On Kawara—Silence." Through radically restricted means, On Kawara’s work engages the personal and historical consciousness of place and time. Kawara’s practice is often associated with the rise of Conceptual art, yet in its complex wit and philosophical reach, it stands well apart. On Kawara—Silence is the first full representation of Kawara’s output, beginning in 1964 and including every category of work, much of it produced during his travels across the globe. Includes videos, and audio tours. See also: Teaching Materials.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/on-kawara-silence | |
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| Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō |
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| Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
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This online exhibit, organized by Oberlin College faculty professor Ann Sherif, situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar, antinuclear, and social justice movements from 1945 to 2020. The exhibit guides viewers through the diverse art that Shikoku, in collaboration with grassroots networks of artists & writers, created to promote social justice: guerilla art protesting the Korean War, poems against the nuclear arms race, a children’s book about war, cityscapes critiquing Hiroshima’s wartime past, and recent performing arts that trace this activist history.
Go to Museum Resource: http://scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/shikoku/index | |
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| Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-century Japan |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"The 20th-century history of the Shiseido cosmetics company provides a vivid image of the efflorescence of modernity in Japan—reflecting the changing ideals of feminine beauty, the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture, cutting-edge trends in advertising and packaging, and the persistence of cosmopolitan ideals even in the midst of the rise of militarism in the 1930s. This unit draws on Shiseido’s vast archives, focusing on the marketing of concepts of modern beauty from the 1920s through 1943, when wartime exigencies eventually curtailed the promotion of an international aesthetic of worldly chic." With an in-depth essay by Gennifer Weisenfeld, professor of art history at Duke University.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/shiseido_01/index.html | |
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| Timeline of Art History: Japan, 1900 A.D.–present |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The twentieth century is a turbulent time in Japan, as the country vacillates between unprecedented heights of power and wealth and the depths of poverty and devastation." With a period overview, list of key events, and 10 related artworks. Also has links to an abridged list of rulers in Japan, and timelines of China and Korea during this time.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=11®ion=eaj | |
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| Tokyo Modern: Koizumi Kishio's "100 Views" of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"100 Views of Great Tokyo in the Shōwa Era, a series of woodblock prints produced between 1928 and 1940 by Koizumi Kishio, explore the rebirth of Tokyo in the years following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. Koizumi’s prints depict the transformation of an important Asian city as it embraced modernity, maintained traditions, and became the site of ultimately disastrous political policies. In addition, Koizumi was a member of a new, modern printmaking movement in Japan known as sōsaku-hanga or 'creative printmaking.'" With an in-depth essay by James T. Ulak, deputy director of the Freer/Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_01/index.html | |
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| The Yamato Colony: Pioneering Japanese in Florida |
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| The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
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"Yamato —an ancient name for the country of Japan. Why do we find the name here in Palm Beach County? Because Yamato, Florida, was a small community where Japanese farmers once lived. The story of Yamato begins with Jo Sakai's visit to Florida in 1903." Online presentation of a permanent exhibition at the Morikami Museum in Florida. Informative text with a few small historical photographs.
Go to Museum Resource: https://morikami.org/yamato-island/ | |
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