2008, ISBN: 9780824831851

Hardcover

NY/Philadelphia: Amphoto/Chilton, (1965). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, grey buckram spine over glossy dark green paper covered boards with gilt Japanese title cha… More...

NY/Philadelphia: Amphoto/Chilton, (1965). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, grey buckram spine over glossy dark green paper covered boards with gilt Japanese title characters. Top edge stained dark green. Illustrated endpapers. 160pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, watercolors,sketches and pastels, many full page plates. The author and his Japanese wife set out to paint, draw and photograph an ancient and traditional Japan and japanese way of life. Many picturesque people and customs which have passed with Japanese modernity are captured. Essentially a picture book with generous commentary. A very fresh, tight and fine volume in a crisp, sharp, brilliant dust jacket with one minute very closed edge tear. A beautiful copy. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.., NY/Philadelphia: Amphoto/Chilton, (1965)., 4, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. Softcover. Fine but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Beige/color-illus. wraps. xxxiv + 310 pp., full of bw illus. In 1939 the painter Iwamatsu Jun (1908-1994) and his artist wife, Tomoe, arrived in the U.S. as political refugees. During World War II, Iwamatsu used his artistic talents for the U.S. war effort, and he adopted a pseudonym, Taro Yashima, to protect his young son, whom he left behind in Japan. The New Sun, which was published in the U.S. in 1943, is an account of his life in prewar Japan. In its depiction of ordinary Japanese, The New Sun is both an indictment of Japanese militarism and a plea for American understanding of "the enemy." Told mainly though Yashima's powerful artwork, it is a personal and political text of a rural doctor's son who becomes an anti-imperialist artist-activist. Yashima recounts how his wife and their peers were imprisoned and brutalized by the Tokkoka, Japan's secret police, often for months without being formally charged or knowing when they would be released. Despite the arbitrary deprivations and cruelties of life in prison and in Imperial Japan, Yashima retains faith in the regenerative possibilities of art and in a future without tyranny. This work of quiet conscience and protest is now as relevant as when it first appeared more than sixty years ago., University of Hawai'i Press, 2008, 2.5<

2008, ISBN: 0824831853

[EAN: 9780824831851], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: University of Hawaii Press], Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such a… More...

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2008, ISBN: 0824831853

[EAN: 9780824831851], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: University of Hawaii Press], HPB, Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and … More...

[EAN: 9780824831851], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: University of Hawaii Press], HPB, Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!, Books<