Title/object name:gamin
Artist/Racial heritage:augusta savage
Discuss the significance of this work in the context of our studies. Some things to consider: What is the title? Who is the artist? When was it created? What was happening in history and art history at this time that influenced the artist and the artwork? What terms and concepts that we have studied would apply to this work? What do you think that the artist is trying to convey?
Title/object name:where is my mother
Artist/Racial heritage: Yun Gee
Discuss the significance of this work in the context of our studies. Some things to consider: What is the title? Who is the artist? When and where was it created? What was happening in history and art history at this time that influenced the artist and the artwork? What terms and concepts that we have studied would apply to this work? What do you think that the artist is trying to convey?
Term / Concept Definition / Relevance / Related to:
Great Migration
New Negro Movement
Harlem Renaissance
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alain Locke
Marcus Garvey
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Harmon Foundation
pan-africanism
primitivism
social realism
miscegenation
naïve style
Ashcan School
narrative series
dynamic cubism
paper identity
Angel Island
Immigration Act of 1924
California Scene Panting
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Pinoy
Issei
1908 Gentleman’s Agreement
Nisei
Nihonga Movement
East West Society
Executive Order 9066
internment camps