Becoming American?: The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi

by ShiPu Wang

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A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all.

On December 8, 1941, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) awoke to find himself branded an enemy alien by the U.S. government in the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The historical crisis forced Kuniyoshi, an emigre Japanese with a distinguished career in American art, to rethink his pictorial strategies and to confront questions of loyalty, assimilation, national and racial identity that he had carefully avoided in his prewar art. As an immigrant who had proclaimed himself to be as...

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  • ISBN13 9780824834180
  • Publish Date 30 June 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English