This is a spectacular piece of documentary work. This tells such an important story that bridges cultures and artistic endeavors. I’m so glad to have bumped into this program. I’ve learned so much from it. The connections between these very influential people are amazing. Jacob Lawrence was a wonderful art teacher of mine at the University of Washington. I did not know this history about him. Thanks so much for whoever posted this program!
This content is incredible! I'm so angry that we were taught about none of this in school, and more angry innocent people were put through these unnecessary man made turmoil. It is inspiring to see people thrive in adversity, but heartbreaking what they endured. I'm grateful for the contributions these people made to a culture and people that were not the kindest to them. Thank you so much for sharing this. 🙏
Osawa and Noguchi …. their work is poetic and haunting.. they complement each other well - did they ever meet, exhibit together..? A beautiful documentary , very privileged to watch it and re learn this history.
One of the best programmes I have watched on youtube. Was blessed to visit an exhibition, at MOMA I think, some years ago, all about the Black Mountain School, this really helped me to contextualise the experience.
Thank You 🙏 This is the first place I’ve even heard of Nouchi’s proposals for Earth based Art!! And I first found out about the Japanese American Citizen’s Interment Camps when I moved to Santa Fe NM twenty years ago~ I was shocked ~ everyone needs to know this happened in our country! And that they could only keep what they could carry on their backs. Glad this film is available for all to learn from…
everytime, each and every single time....i even went through 6 years of Fine Arts and Visual Arts Degree. And still, no mention of the great "TOKO SHINODA". Absolutely no honor or praise towards the most integral and absolutely necessary element to Art, i would even go as far as to say in life.
i remember seeing ruth asawa's work int he de young museum as ayoung child and being completely entranced by it. to know now that it was done by an asian woman artist and the amount of asian artists that left their mark in america is so refreshing and uplifting to an asian woman artist myself
Great documentary! Great stories of great people; artists and the people in their lives. Being a lover of art, jazz and a being a musician I'd experienced much of the work showcased here. Many times I was not aware of it's origin. Good to know its source; where it cam from; what it went through to get here. The jazz music was superb as well! After reading some of the comments, I'd like to say that what happened with the internment camps is not essentially about "race". Race is too general and convenient a "catch-all" umbrella to put injustices under without taking the time and energy to understand that you're looking at something that is deeper than physical appearance and that has lived in every human heart. What you saw was the fruit of fear, insecurity, guilt, mistrust, hatred and faithlessness. No ethnic group has a monopoly on those nor is any group invulnerable to perpetrating them. In different times in human history it's different people, but the same evil. Failure to understand that means we've learned nothing.
Thank you! I enjoyed watching this video. My BA is in Art History specializing in Japanese art and I have a Minor in Asian Studies from a long time ago. While this educational achievement ended up being useless for any employment opportunities Japanese art evolved into more of a hobby. I remember spending hours at Noguchi's California Scenario enjoying his modernistic landscape and seeing Asawa's exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum several years ago. While the works presented in this video are all considered Japanese American modern art traditional Japanese art helped influence American and European modernism. The Japanese artists living in Japan during the early and mid 20th century were influenced by European modernism since many of them studied in Paris. To address the other comments regarding the Japanese American internment camps: Japan surreptitiously bombed Pearl Harbor; there were Japanese spies in Hawaii; Japan had eventual plans to invade the West Coast of the U.S. (they had already invaded the Aleutian Islands in Alaska) but by 1944 the Japanese were losing the war and in self defense mode. Add these factors up with American "panic" and you get the Japanese internment camps. The only Japanese Americans who were interned were the ones living on the West Coast of the U.S. Japanese Americans living on the East Coast and Middle America weren't affected. Americans with German or Italian ancestry immigrated long before Japanese Americans immigrated to the U.S. and pretty much assimilated into American culture by the 1940's. I'm not saying the internment camps were the "right thing" to do but Germany and Italy didn't bomb American soil let alone take out our Naval Pacific Fleet. After bombing Pearl Harbor and taking over other islands of the South Pacific the West Coast of the U.S. was the next step (the Japanese had airstrips on some of these small islands capable of bombing the West Coast). Indeed, there was some racism during the 1940's against African Americans and Hispanics (Jim Crow laws and the Zoot Suit riots) but I think the Pearl Harbor bombing caused Americans to panic into a state of paranoia.
it's a shame that despite your knowledge on Asian and Asian American history you don't have a more nuanced view of the situation. Especially after visiting JANM, which has dedicated so much to debunking the racist idea that the camps and other denials of basic civil rights were even an iota justified or understandable at all. No one should come away from there entertaining the idea that welllll, maybe if I lived during that time I'd support the abandonment of fellow citizens out of fear. Seriously. As you may know, many formerly classified government documents have been uncovered which proved that racism, and not just general fear, was a primary cause of the persecution of Japanese Americans. I would suggest starting with the Munson Report, which established that the government could very well separate Japanese Americans from Japanese nationals with allegiance to Japan, and that even early immigrants with an old world mentality were not dangerous. By the way, you're a bit off on the immigration timeline. The largest waves of German, Italian, and Japanese immigration all happened within the same few decades, and for Japanese and Italians it was nearly the same. The two other groups were able to assimilate more because, among other reasons, white Anglo Saxons were beginning to accept other European minorities into their fold of whiteness to prevent them (lower class immigrant laborers) from building coalitions with the people of color who shared a similar class status. Japanese Americans tried their damnedest to assimilate but faced barriers every step of the way due to legal and societal racism. Because of how their faces looked, and how virulent racists felt about those "inscrutable" faces. There are many great books on these topics (I'd suggest Ronald Takaki as one) that you may want to read. Cheers.
@@mkadollarsignh I did not get this idea when reading the OP's post. You speak of nuance, but it does not seem your comment warrants such a charitable claim; in fact, it's ironic the OP does just that, and the one to cast the stone is the very person who cannot see the log in their own eye.
to Chris Eberhardt The Japanese had never considered invading the United States in the Pacific War. You are not studying well. Rather, you don't know that America wanted the interests of Asia, and that America deliberately dragged annoying Japan into war. Japan didn't want to fight the US until the end. But Theodore Roosevelt didn't allow it. You also say that the Japanese developed art only under the influence of Europe, but you don't know that the 1800s Edo period ukiyo-e influenced Van Gogh and other prominent artists. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations because it appealed to the League of Nations for an international society without racism and was rejected by America. Is your idea like a racist? You should study the history of truth more.
@@jonnoo ok. maybe I should say that what appears to be nuance in his comment is actually based on numerous falsehoods. my comment still stands. if you had a point, you'd address it directly - any historical details in either of our comments you'd like to dig into? no? then you can do away with your flowery idioms and stop policing what I've said.
@@mkadollarsignh Yikes :S , it appears you have a chip on your shoulder. I thought the OP reasoned with a capacious worldview, which was modest enough to leave room for correction and discussion. The only policing I see in this thread comes from your unforgiving comment; no one said your comment did not stand - unnecessary to erect a strawman argument there. Your seeming indomitable focus on racism, and your binary logic and hermeneutics, this tendency to have an unvarying and yawn-inducing understanding of what constitutes a "group" is parochial, and is where your argument lacks nuance. Groups are made up of individuals with agency, let's begin there. You recommend a book by one author, that's one strand of perception and knowledge - does this make you an expert on this history? Let's say you have the credentials, even so a wise and learned scholar would not make scathing, blanket statements like you did to the OP. He/she simply voiced his appreciation for the video. No need to be riled up by the spirit of the age and what the media is peddling. Have a good day.
I believe both Germans and Italians were also interned for various reasons but neither face the wholesaler internment that the Japanese American faced.
SAD to see yet another documentary not addressing the real issues of Japanese American citizens being put in camps; which was of course PROPERTY SEIZURE and PROFIT. At that time, Japanese citizens owned some of the best farm land in CA, and they never got it back.
Thank you for this beautiful episode and selecting my Uncle Neil Fujita (my father's oldest brother).....great seeing my cousin Kenji as well.....
Kenji was my favorite professor when I was in the sculpture program at Bard. Great to see him here. I absolutely love Neil Fujita's work.
wow...can't believe this is a free resource. God's work
He who understands art forgets war.This is very important documentary. Thank you .
One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever watched
This is a spectacular piece of documentary work. This tells such an important story that bridges cultures and artistic endeavors. I’m so glad to have bumped into this program. I’ve learned so much from it. The connections between these very influential people are amazing. Jacob Lawrence was a wonderful art teacher of mine at the University of Washington. I did not know this history about him. Thanks so much for whoever posted this program!
This content is incredible! I'm so angry that we were taught about none of this in school, and more angry innocent people were put through these unnecessary man made turmoil. It is inspiring to see people thrive in adversity, but heartbreaking what they endured. I'm grateful for the contributions these people made to a culture and people that were not the kindest to them. Thank you so much for sharing this. 🙏
Understanding ourselves, our past and present................very endearing.....courageous....creative and strong spirit peoples!!!!!!!!!!!
This was such an amazing experience. This is what social media is supposed to be.
This was Beautiful thank for sharing
Osawa and Noguchi …. their work is poetic and haunting.. they complement each other well - did they ever meet, exhibit together..? A beautiful documentary , very privileged to watch it and re learn this history.
Starting to fall in love with this channel. Amazing content. So underrated. Thank you
What a wonderful video. Thank you.
One of the best programmes I have watched on youtube. Was blessed to visit an exhibition, at MOMA I think, some years ago, all about the Black Mountain School, this really helped me to contextualise the experience.
Wonderful thank you so much. I knew of many of these artists but the context makes the work so much richer.
This was a pleasure to watch. Ruth Asawa has stamps available from USPS right now
My Sister in Law was born in Yokohama, Japan, I bought the Ruth Asawa stamps for her, now it’s nice to know her story.
KCET does it again. I loved this documentary and all the other high quality cultural content coming out of KCET. Enlightening and informative.
This is so well done ~ I’ve shared and will watch this over and over. So well done; and inspiring ~ thank you
Yes. There is a huge amount of content here. Far to much to take in on the first pass.
This was so so GOOD. Black Mountain college was a miraculous place teh amount of famous artists/creatives who came out of there. WOW.
Thank You 🙏 This is the first place I’ve even heard of Nouchi’s proposals for Earth based Art!! And I first found out about the Japanese American Citizen’s Interment Camps when I moved to Santa Fe NM twenty years ago~ I was shocked ~ everyone needs to know this happened in our country! And that they could only keep what they could carry on their backs. Glad this film is available for all to learn from…
everytime, each and every single time....i even went through 6 years of Fine Arts and Visual Arts Degree. And still, no mention of the great "TOKO SHINODA". Absolutely no honor or praise towards the most integral and absolutely necessary element to Art, i would even go as far as to say in life.
This was so beautiful, I am in tears. Amazing 🥲
I have to watch this video again and again. Thank YOU MUCH from Cape Town.
Love these series. Thank you.
What an Astounding testimony to these great persons! Marvelous talent and integrity.
Watch this! It was so good!
i remember seeing ruth asawa's work int he de young museum as ayoung child and being completely entranced by it. to know now that it was done by an asian woman artist and the amount of asian artists that left their mark in america is so refreshing and uplifting to an asian woman artist myself
WOW!!! This is superb. And I know I will rewatch many times. There is so much to think about.
Fabulous!!!
AMAZING!!!
This feels like a companion documentary to season 2 of the show "The Terror" (story is set in the camps during WW2).
Great documentary! Great stories of great people; artists and the people in their lives. Being a lover of art, jazz and a being a musician I'd experienced much of the work showcased here. Many times I was not aware of it's origin. Good to know its source; where it cam from; what it went through to get here. The jazz music was superb as well!
After reading some of the comments, I'd like to say that what happened with the internment camps is not essentially about "race". Race is too general and convenient a "catch-all" umbrella to put injustices under without taking the time and energy to understand that you're looking at something that is deeper than physical appearance and that has lived in every human heart. What you saw was the fruit of fear, insecurity, guilt, mistrust, hatred and faithlessness. No ethnic group has a monopoly on those nor is any group invulnerable to perpetrating them. In different times in human history it's different people, but the same evil. Failure to understand that means we've learned nothing.
Thank you, what a wonderfully interesting and informative video, really learned a great deal.
Beautiful story
Very interesting.
Wow this was soo good🙏🏽
super art
amazing
1:19 I can feel the pain this guy felt
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Thank you! I enjoyed watching this video. My BA is in Art History specializing in Japanese art and I have a Minor in Asian Studies from a long time ago. While this educational achievement ended up being useless for any employment opportunities Japanese art evolved into more of a hobby. I remember spending hours at Noguchi's California Scenario enjoying his modernistic landscape and seeing Asawa's exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum several years ago. While the works presented in this video are all considered Japanese American modern art traditional Japanese art helped influence American and European modernism. The Japanese artists living in Japan during the early and mid 20th century were influenced by European modernism since many of them studied in Paris. To address the other comments regarding the Japanese American internment camps: Japan surreptitiously bombed Pearl Harbor; there were Japanese spies in Hawaii; Japan had eventual plans to invade the West Coast of the U.S. (they had already invaded the Aleutian Islands in Alaska) but by 1944 the Japanese were losing the war and in self defense mode. Add these factors up with American "panic" and you get the Japanese internment camps. The only Japanese Americans who were interned were the ones living on the West Coast of the U.S. Japanese Americans living on the East Coast and Middle America weren't affected. Americans with German or Italian ancestry immigrated long before Japanese Americans immigrated to the U.S. and pretty much assimilated into American culture by the 1940's. I'm not saying the internment camps were the "right thing" to do but Germany and Italy didn't bomb American soil let alone take out our Naval Pacific Fleet. After bombing Pearl Harbor and taking over other islands of the South Pacific the West Coast of the U.S. was the next step (the Japanese had airstrips on some of these small islands capable of bombing the West Coast). Indeed, there was some racism during the 1940's against African Americans and Hispanics (Jim Crow laws and the Zoot Suit riots) but I think the Pearl Harbor bombing caused Americans to panic into a state of paranoia.
it's a shame that despite your knowledge on Asian and Asian American history you don't have a more nuanced view of the situation. Especially after visiting JANM, which has dedicated so much to debunking the racist idea that the camps and other denials of basic civil rights were even an iota justified or understandable at all. No one should come away from there entertaining the idea that welllll, maybe if I lived during that time I'd support the abandonment of fellow citizens out of fear. Seriously. As you may know, many formerly classified government documents have been uncovered which proved that racism, and not just general fear, was a primary cause of the persecution of Japanese Americans. I would suggest starting with the Munson Report, which established that the government could very well separate Japanese Americans from Japanese nationals with allegiance to Japan, and that even early immigrants with an old world mentality were not dangerous. By the way, you're a bit off on the immigration timeline. The largest waves of German, Italian, and Japanese immigration all happened within the same few decades, and for Japanese and Italians it was nearly the same. The two other groups were able to assimilate more because, among other reasons, white Anglo Saxons were beginning to accept other European minorities into their fold of whiteness to prevent them (lower class immigrant laborers) from building coalitions with the people of color who shared a similar class status. Japanese Americans tried their damnedest to assimilate but faced barriers every step of the way due to legal and societal racism. Because of how their faces looked, and how virulent racists felt about those "inscrutable" faces. There are many great books on these topics (I'd suggest Ronald Takaki as one) that you may want to read. Cheers.
@@mkadollarsignh I did not get this idea when reading the OP's post. You speak of nuance, but it does not seem your comment warrants such a charitable claim; in fact, it's ironic the OP does just that, and the one to cast the stone is the very person who cannot see the log in their own eye.
to Chris Eberhardt
The Japanese had never considered invading the United States in the Pacific War. You are not studying well.
Rather, you don't know that America wanted the interests of Asia, and that America deliberately dragged annoying Japan into war.
Japan didn't want to fight the US until the end.
But Theodore Roosevelt didn't allow it.
You also say that the Japanese developed art only under the influence of Europe, but you don't know that the 1800s Edo period ukiyo-e influenced Van Gogh and other prominent artists.
Japan withdrew from the League of Nations because it appealed to the League of Nations for an international society without racism and was rejected by America.
Is your idea like a racist?
You should study the history of truth more.
@@jonnoo ok. maybe I should say that what appears to be nuance in his comment is actually based on numerous falsehoods. my comment still stands. if you had a point, you'd address it directly - any historical details in either of our comments you'd like to dig into? no? then you can do away with your flowery idioms and stop policing what I've said.
@@mkadollarsignh Yikes :S , it appears you have a chip on your shoulder. I thought the OP reasoned with a capacious worldview, which was modest enough to leave room for correction and discussion. The only policing I see in this thread comes from your unforgiving comment; no one said your comment did not stand - unnecessary to erect a strawman argument there. Your seeming indomitable focus on racism, and your binary logic and hermeneutics, this tendency to have an unvarying and yawn-inducing understanding of what constitutes a "group" is parochial, and is where your argument lacks nuance. Groups are made up of individuals with agency, let's begin there. You recommend a book by one author, that's one strand of perception and knowledge - does this make you an expert on this history? Let's say you have the credentials, even so a wise and learned scholar would not make scathing, blanket statements like you did to the OP. He/she simply voiced his appreciation for the video. No need to be riled up by the spirit of the age and what the media is peddling. Have a good day.
Heyy where i can find all the episodes????
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Did they ever get their properties back? Or where they ever paid damage for what was done to them?
That didnt feel like an hour!
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I believe both Germans and Italians were also interned for various reasons but neither face the wholesaler internment that the Japanese American faced.
amazing lucky in many ways, must be middle class upwards, cos art as careers rarely encourage in poorer households by % specially eastern cultures
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SAD to see yet another documentary not addressing the real issues of Japanese American citizens being put in camps; which was of course PROPERTY SEIZURE and PROFIT. At that time, Japanese citizens owned some of the best farm land in CA, and they never got it back.
It's happening in China again
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I wonder how the Japanese American feel about this upcoming racism in America 2020
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This was not a pleasure to watch. But ..
Just had to play the race card at the very beginning of the video. It's pretty nauseating and a complete turnoff for me.
Amazing