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During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period: the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children’s author Yoshiko Uchida. The backgrounds of the four figures reveal a mixing of nationalities, a borrowing of cultures, and a combination of domestic and overseas interests. Edward Tang shows how the film, art, and literature made by these artists revealed to the American public the linked processes of U.S. actions at home and abroad. Their work played into—but also challenged—the postwar rehabilitated images of Japan and Japanese Americans as it focused on the history of transpacific relations such as Japanese immigration to the United States, the Asia-Pacific War, U.S. and Japanese imperialism, and the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans. From Confinement to Containment shows the relationships between larger global forces as well as how the artists and writers responded to them in both critical and compromised ways .

The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, \"which opened in 1985 [in Queens, New York City], is an integrated expression of one of the 20th century's most elegant and creative spirits. It is here that you can see, in examples that Noguchi himself selected, the embracing universality, range and richness of a lifetime's work in stone, clay, wood and metal. Here, too, you can see evidence of his explorations in shaping earth, water, sound, space and light itself. There are, for instance, his parks, plazas and playgrounds, his furniture designs, fountains and lamps, his dance and theater sets, and, of course, his gardens. You could say that of the major sculptors of the 20th century only Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti were his peers.\" (SMITHSONIAN) This overview of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum highlights the dramatic life, ideations and artworks of Noguchi.