Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at UC Merced, ShiPu Wang, will discuss “The Other American Moderns” Art Historical Research as a Form of Activism” for a brown bag lecture.

ShiPu Wang talks about his decade-long effort in recovering and studying socially-engaged artwork produced by diasporic Japanese American artists in the Exclusion era. Wang’s new book, The Other American Moderns (Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa (Penn State University Press, 2017)), aims to add nuance to and intervene in discourses of American modernism and pre-WWII interracial relations.

WHEN: March 1, 2018, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
WHERE: 3201 Hart Hall

Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department and the Art History Program.