Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
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This unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the pre–World War II generations.
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo brings together over ninety works by three pioneering Japanese American artists from the pre–World War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. This groundbreaking exhibition and accompanying book reintroduces their work and explores their deep connections with each other for the first time.
About the Author
ShiPu Wang is the Coats Family Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History at University of California, Merced. He is a former editorial board member of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's American Art and now serves on the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Board of Commissioners. Wang is the author of Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi and The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa. Wang was also the curator and editor of Chiura Obata: An American Modern.