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A Working
Bibliography of Japanese American Concentration Camp Art
conceives of art broadly to include all cultural expressions that
result in a material object. Encompassing both primary and
secondary sources, this bibliography includes
information on classical art forms, as well as what many people would
define as crafts or
hobbies. Examples of art included in this site are jewelry made
with shells, hats woven from unraveled potato sacks, wood block prints,
gardens, paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, pottery, spinning,
weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, artificial flowers, crocheting,
pebble and stone art, model airplanes, cartoons, dolls,
landscaping, murals, poster art, ikebana, getas, and furniture.
“The Art” category encompasses all information contained in this site
and allows you to search by art form, artist name, archival collection
where the source can be located, materials used to create objects, and
assembly center, concentration camp, or Justice Department facility
where the art was created. “Published Sources” contains a portion
of the information included on this site, but allows users to sift
through specific monographs, diaries, magazine articles, or scholarly
essays. The “Juvenile
Literature” category is organized more as a conventional bibliography
and includes book reviews. Juvenile literature book reviews that
pay special attention to art forms and themes discussed by authors are
welcome at the email listed below.
Camp newspapers and War Relocation Authority photographs are included
in “The Art” section, but can also be located in separate listings by
using the navigation bar. Numbers appearing after art forms refer
to the order in which data was added to this site and are included to
aid users in tracking sources previously viewed. Funded by a
grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Project, A Working Bibliography of Japanese
American Concentration Camp Art is an ongoing project with
sources added daily.
Countless archivists, community activists, former
internees and their descendants contributed to this site and many are
listed as contact names for various archival collections where sources
can be located. Special thanks to Tobie Matava who donated
endless hours designing the architecture of this site.
Feedback concerning A Working
Bibliography of Japanese
American Concentration Camp Art is welcome at the email listed
below.
Permission
to use or
reproduce any of the images included in this site must be obtained from
jdusseli@umd.edu and specific
archives where art is located. All images on this site are
copyright protected.
This
site is
currently
being redesigned. Some categories are not available
for viewing.
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