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Item Details
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YUN GEE
POETRY, WRITINGS, ART, MEMORIES |
| By: |
Anthony Lee (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
029598354X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780295983547 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2003 |
| Series: |
The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Presents a selection of paintings, poetry, essays, and ephemeral writings by the Chinese American modernist, Yun Gee (1906-1963). Documenting the expressions of an Asian American artist of the first half of the 20th century, this book also illuminates the experiences of the Chinese immigrants who came of age in America during the Exclusion Era. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume presents a selection of paintings, poetry, essays, and ephemeral writings by the Chinese American modernist Yun Gee (19061963), together with essays about the artist. Yun Gee arrived in San Francisco from Guangdong Province at the age of fifteen and within a few years established himself as one of the citys most daring avant-garde painters. But all of his astonishing efforts with the brush and palette ran up against an intense anti-Chinese sentiment. He seemed never to escape the high social price of being Chinesenot in San Francisco, Paris, or New York, where he ended his days. This collection of writings and images represents the eclectic interests and disappointed hopes of a man who was by turns a political revolutionary, cultural radical, social visionary, teacher, inventor, painter, and poet. As a unique collection of materials documenting the expressions of an Asian American artist of the first half of the 20th century, this book illuminates not only the life and work of the multifaceted Yun Gee, but also the experiences of Chinese immigrants who came of age in America during the Exclusion Era.Anthony Lees essays and the materials he has gathered here reveal the utopianism, anger, and anxiety that were the traces of an entire generations racialized existence. |
| Illustrations: |
26 illus., 17 in color |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Washington Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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