Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Brett Littman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dakin Hart and Mark Dean Johnson
Note on Translation
Saburo Hasegawa: A Brief Biography
Dakin Hart and Mark Dean Johnson

I. Artist of the Controlled Accident
1. The Controlled Accident
Saburo Hasegawa
2. The Paintings of Saburo Hasegawa
Paul Mills
3. Saburo Hasegawa: Master of the Controlled Accident
Alan W. Watts
4. Saburo Hasegawa as a Leader in Modern Art in Japan
Elise Grilli
5. Selected Writings by Saburo Hasegawa
Article from the New York Times
Haniwa (unpublished poem)
Notes on Painting (unpublished essay)
My House (reprinted essay)

II. Remembrances of Former Students
6. Remembrances of Former California College of Arts and
Crafts Students
Billy Al Bengston and Mel Strawn

III. Selected Letters to Isamu Noguchi
7. Selected Letters from Hasegawa to Isamu Noguchi, 1950–1951

IV. Selected Essays by Saburo Hasegawa
8. On Sesshu, 1934 (translated by Gaku Kondo)
9. Sesshu, 1948 (translated by Haruko Kohno)
10. The New Art, 1948 (translated by Gaku Kondo)
11. Conversations with Isamu Noguchi June 8 and 9, 1950
(translated by Yoriko Yamamoto and Mark Dean Johnson)
12. Days with Isamu Noguchi, 1950 (translated by Reiko Tomii)
13. Rambling Words on Song-Yuan Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1950
(translated by Gaku Kondo)
14. Mondrian: An Essay on the New Occident and the
Old Orient, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo)
15. Arp: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951
(translated by Gaku Kondo)
16. Letters from France and America: An Essay on the New
Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 (translated by Gaku Kondo)
17. Making the Katsura Imperial Villa Abstract, 1951 (translated by
Gaku Kondo)
18. Calligraphy and New Painting, 1952 (translated by Haruko Kohno)
19. New Photography and Painting, 1953 (translated by Haruko Kohno)
20. The Fate of American Artists, 1955 (translated by Gaku Kondo)
21. Present-Day American Abstract Art, 1955
(translated by Haruko Kohno)
22. Nationalism and Universalism in Japanese Art, 1955
(translated by Haruko Kohno)

Notes

About the Author

Mark Dean Johnson is Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.

Dakin Hart is Senior Curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.