Zen and artists of the Eighth Street Club: Ibram Lassaw and Hasegawa Saburo.

Title: Zen and artists of the Eighth Street Club: Ibram Lassaw and Hasegawa Saburo.
Identifier: AAI3159221
identifier: 3159221
Creator: Johnson, Sarah.
Contributor: Adviser: Anna Chave
Date: 2005
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Art History | History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Abstract: My dissertation centers on two postwar artists working in New York: US based sculptor Ibram Lassaw and Japanese painter Hasegawa Saburo and their involvement with Zen Buddhism.;My work binds together the correspondence, writing, and talks of Lassaw and Hasegawa with analysis of their artwork in an effort to clarify their particular interpretations of Zen within the larger milieu of interest in 'Asian thought' found in Abstract Expressionism. I pay special attention to their lectures on Zen Buddhism at the Eighth Street Artist's Club, an integral site for mid 20th century artists' discourse and practice. My overall methodology focuses on issues of identity and nationalism.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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