[Rarebooks] FS: Sugimoto: Japanese in Relocation Camps

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Sugimoto, Henry. Kubo, Sadajiro. HOKUBEI NIHONJIN NO SHUYOJO: KIROKU 
KAIGA. NORTH AMERICAN JAPANESE PEOPLE IN RELOCATION CAMPS. Tokyo: 
Sobunsha, 1981. 115 pp. Illus. with 37 color plates. Folio. Brown 
cloth lettered in black (hardback). First edition.

Signed by the artist in the year of publication, which was also the 
year he testified before Congress about its unjust incarceration of 
American citizens, which eventually led to an official apology. 
Sugimoto (1901-1990) came to America from Japan at age 19 and studied 
art. At the age of 42, along with over a hundred thousand other 
Japanese Americans, he and his family were interned, first in 
California and later at Camp Jerome in Arkansas where his work, 
produced on "canvases" improvised from sheets, pillowcases, and 
mattress bags, was profoundly influenced by the stark Arkansas 
environment. His earlier depictions of the tranquil landscapes of 
California, France, and Mexico, gave way, "in subject matter and 
style, to a vigorous and fractured exploration of civil rights 
violated and the toll these violations took on his family and 
community" (Kristine Kim, Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American 
Experience; p. xi). After the war he eventually found work as a 
textile designer before turning once again to art. He was living in 
Harlem at the time of his death. Essays, descriptions of the 37 works 
illustrated, biography, exhibition list, captions, all text in both 
Japanese and English.

Slight soiling to free front endpaper else a fine copy in a very near 
fine dust jacket with some faint creases on the rear panel, with the 
original blue sales band.  [32046] $400.00 

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P. O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424
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