Saburo hasegawa biography
- Saburō Hasegawa was a Japanese-born American calligrapher, painter, art writer, curator, and teacher.
- Saburō Hasegawa was a Japanese-born American calligrapher, painter, art writer, curator, and teacher.
- A biographical sketch of Saburo Hasegawa is given, detailing his early studies in painting and art history in Osaka and Tokyo.
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Saburo Hasegawa
Saburō Hasegawa | |
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| Born | 6 September 1906 Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 11 March 1957 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
| Occupation(s) | calligrapher, artist, educator, critic |
| Known for | Painting, art criticism, Japanese traditional arts |
| Style | Abstraction, Calligraphy |
Saburō Hasegawa (長谷川 三郎, Hasegawa Saburō, 6 September 1906 – 11 March 1957) was a Japanese-born American calligrapher, painter, art writer, curator, and teacher. He was an early advocate of abstract art in Japan and an equally vocal supporter of the Japanese traditional arts (Japanese calligraphy, ikebana, tea ceremony, ink painting) and Zen Buddhism. Throughout his career he argued for the connection between East Asian classical arts and Western abstract painting.
Biography
Early life: 1906–1929
Saburō Hasegawa was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1906, the fifth of eleven children. His father was an executive for Mitsui & Co. who had worked in London and Hong Kong.
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The Hasegawa Reader is an open access companion to the bilingual catalogue copublished with The Noguchi Museum to accompany an international touring exhibition, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan. The exhibition features the work of two artists who were friends and contemporaries: Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa. This volume is intended to give scholars and general readers access to a wealth of archival material and writings by and about Saburo Hasegawa. While Noguchi’s reputation as a preeminent American sculptor of the twentieth century only grows stronger, Saburo Hasegawa is less well known, despite being considered the most literate artist in Japan during his lifetime (1906–1957). Hasegawa is credited with introducing abstraction in Japan in the mid 1930s, and he worked as an artist in diverse media including oil and ink pain
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Saburo Hasegawa: A Brief Biography
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Dakin Hart, Mark Dean Johnson
Affiliation: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, US
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Affiliation: San Francisco State University, US
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Chapter from the book: Hart D. & Johnson M. 2019. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader.
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A biographical sketch of Saburo Hasegawa is given, detailing his early studies in painting and art history in Osaka and Tokyo, along with subsequent travel to the United States and Europe and his exposure to their avant-garde currents. In the decade following his return to Japan in 1931, Hasegawa exhibits paintings indebted to international art movements, becomes a member of various Japanese artist groups, and begins work in photography, while concurrently establishing himself as an incisive art critic, making aesthetic connections between sources as varied as classical Chinese painting and Mondrian. After retreating from his artistic practice and criticism for most of the 1940s, he reemerges just as the Japa
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