{"id":1370,"date":"2020-08-11T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2021-06-12T04:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T04:38:40","slug":"masters-of-modern-design-the-art-of-the-japanese-american-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/masters-of-modern-design-the-art-of-the-japanese-american-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

(2019) TRT: 56 min.<\/p>\n

From the iconic typeface of \u201cThe Godfather\u201d book cover to Herman Miller\u2019s Noguchi table, the influence of Japanese American artists and designers in postwar American art and design is unparalleled. While this second generation of Japanese American artists have been celebrated in various publications and exhibitions with their iconic work, less-discussed is how the World War II incarceration \u2014 a period of intense discrimination and hardship \u2014 has also had a powerful effect on the lives of artists such as Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita and Gyo Obata.<\/p>\n

Director \/ Producer \/ Director of Photography: Akira Boch
\nProducers:\u00a0Matthew Crotty, Evan Kodani, Yuka Murakami, Jacqueline Reyno
\nCo-Producer: Tadashi Nakamura
\nEditor: Evan Kodani<\/p>\n

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(2019) TRT: 56 min. From the iconic typeface of \u201cThe Godfather\u201d book cover to Herman Miller\u2019s Noguchi table, the influence of Japanese American artists and designers in postwar American art and design is unparalleled. While this second generation of Japanese American artists have been celebrated in various publications and exhibitions with their iconic work, less-discussed is how the World War II incarceration \u2014 a period of intense discrimination and hardship \u2014 has also had a powerful effect on the lives of artists such as Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita and Gyo Obata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-new","wpz-has-embed-code"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/maxresdefault.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tadashinakamura.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}