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Sadakichi Hartmann
Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910. Jane Weaver has recovered and assembled over fifty of Hartmann's critical writings from influential, though often obscure, turn-of-the-century journals. These reviews and theoretical essays not only provide some of the earliest known criticism of important artists and photographers of the period, but also make Hartmann's fundamental—and uniquely American—definition of modernism available to students of art and cultural history. A most useful adjunct to the text is a complete bibliography of Hartmann's writings...
Sadakichi Hartmann, Alien Son
Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Japan in 1867, the second son of Prussian businessman Carl Hartmann and a young prostitute, Osada. Upon her death shortly after Sadakichi’s birth, both boys were sent to Hamburg, Germany to live and be educated, as promised by Hartmann Senior to their mother on her deathbed. With this act of kindness, their father completely washed his hands of any further obligation to the boys. He ignored them completely as he continued his profession traveling the world over as a business rep for various corporations. Their father’s rare appearances, and gelid distance toward them when he was present, affected Sadakichi depressingly, he having a satiating need of a fathe...
Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography
The first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photograph up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come.
Race and Role
Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama explores the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater, and through theater's generative power, exposes the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.
Letter to Sadakichi Hartmann, Dated Nov. 1, 1931
Expresses the author's opinion of "so called modern art."
Sadakichi Hartmann
"So much critical writing on the visual arts in this country today is what I call criticism without memory. This book does much to restore an important chapter in the cultural memory all of our critics should have."—Hilton Kramer, Editor, The New Criterion
Sadakichi Hartmann - Drifting Flowers & Other Verses
Sadakichi Hartmann - Drifting Flowers & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #10 Publicdomainpoets.com Containing Sadakichi Hartmann's 'Tanka & Haikai: Japanese Rhythms' (1915); selections from 'My Rubaiyat' (1913), and the earlier, 'Drifting Flowers of the Sea' (1904); and the essays 'Why I Publish My Own Books' (1915) and 'The Japanese Conception of Poetry' (1904). New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. If pleasures be mine As aeons and aeons roll by, Why should I repine That under some future sky I may live as a butterfly. Hartmann (1867-1944) was born on the island of Dejima, off the coast of Nagasaki, to a Japanese mother and German father. His mother died giving birth to...
