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is the most comprehensive effort to define independent Asian Pacific media arts and to describe its course from 1970-1990.The words, essays, and statements by the fifty media artists and cultural workers in this book challenge, celebrate, and contradict each other.Over ninety film stills and archival photos from the early 1900s to the 1990s illustrate this volume, designed to be used as a creative sourcebook and as an introductory text.

Russell C. Leong is the editor of Amerasia Journal and Adjunct Professor of English at UCLA. ... Read more

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Gail Gelburd and Geri De Paoli conclude that Asian philosophy, particularly Taoism and Zen, has had a profound affect on contemporary American art. They reveal a thread that brings together artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Irwin, as John Baldesari and Carl Andre.

Documented with numerous interviews, archival data, and an extensive bibliography, this book will interest those who appreciate twentieth-century art, visual theory, and Eastern-Western comparative studies.

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Examines the work of 18 Asian Pacific American artists creating in the Pacific Northwest during the period from 1900 to1960. Essays on art in Seattle, Asian American painters of Washington state, early Asian American photographers, and the legacy of Asian American art accompany color paintings and ... Read more