Even after generations of scholarship, traces of Alfred Barr's notorious diagram of the history
of modernism for the catalog of the 1936 Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition …

In “The Aging of the New Music,” Theodor W. Adorno excoriates Pierre Boulez and his
disciples for their deadly development of the New Music initiated by Schoenberg, Berg, and …

This dissertation examines figurations of Asian mixed race during the long period of Asian
exclusion and enforced anti-miscegenation in the United States, when racial mixing was …

In the first half of the seventeenth century, a key figure who bridged the divide between the
venerated imperial capital of Kyoto and Edo-seat of power of a new military regime-was …

This study seeks out diverse and complex intersections of space, place, and identity through
selected Asian American artists working in California from the 1970s to 2000s. It does so in …

Abstract In this essay, Jay Bernstein moves from Adorno's notion of 'late style'in order to
assess the artistic trajectory of post-modernist sculpture and painting. Radicalizing Adorno …

This dissertation examines the lives and works of three Nisei cultural producers—sculptor
Isamu Noguchi, woodworker George Nakashima, and architect Minoru Yamasaki—during …

In Kyoto's intertwined arenas of politics, culture, and industry, the nineteenth century
presented more devastating challenges than the seventeenth century. The opening of …