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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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