Sublimation and Eccentricity in the art of Mark Tobey
Sublimation and Eccentricity in the art of Mark Tobey
Seattle At Midcentury
Follows the career of artist Mark Tobey, whose long-standing interest in Japan exemplifies twentieth-century Western trends toward fascination with Zen Buddhism, rustic Japanese pottery, and calligraphy. Tobey’s career intersects in illuminating ways with very well known figures – the artist John Cage, the potter Bernard Leach, the critic Clement Greenberg – allowing this chapter to explore the impact of World War and Cold War on Japanism. The chapter concludes with an argument connecting initiatives to integrate Japanese-Americans into the cultural mainstream with the end of Japanism as a structure of dissent.
Keywords: Seattle, Art, Pottery, Zen, Abstract Expressionism, World War II, Cold War, Japanese-Americans
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