Parallel Modernism

"Parallel Modernism is the first English-language book to explore Cubism and Surrealism in Japan at length. It offers a wealth of color illustrations and translations of Japanese material that shed light on the ways that modernism in Japan was interpolated and redefined in local terms. This book will have a lasting impact on the field. "—Namiko Kunimoto, author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art "Chinghsin Wu’s original and important study of Koga Harue upends established notions of Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism as simply centered in or derived from Europe. Carefully researched and clearly written, her account of a 'parallel' trajectory of modernism in Japan joins an exciting body of art historical scholarship on global modernisms and transnational circulation. "—Sonal Khullar, author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990