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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Yoshie Yoshida papers
Creator:
Yoshida, Yoshie
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2350
Physical Description:
2.6 Linear Feet
(9 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1959-2005
Abstract: As an art critic and curator, Yoshie Yoshida (1929-2016) organized many exhibitions and events in Japan. After becoming a
member of Art Critics Association, he was also engaged in supporting political and performance art. The collection ranges
from monographs, serials and audiovisual material to scrapbooks, article clippings, exhibition programs, posters and correspondence.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are mostly in Japanese, with some in English and Portuguese.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed audiovisual materials. All requests to access digital materials
must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
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the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of Item], Yoshie Yoshida papers (Collection 2350). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
The acquisition was through the gift of the Yoshida family, with the assistance of Yoshiko Shimada (who compiled the archival
materials into files) and William Marotti, in 2016. The "Kazuko Tsujimura" folder was donated by Tsujimura's brother to Yoshiko
Shimada and added to the collection in 2017.
Physical processing performed by Wil Lin and Hannah Moshier and intellectual processing performed by Junko Tanaka, under the
guidance of Courtney Dean, 2017-2018.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9983164053606533
Yoshie Yoshida, an art critic, curator, and event/exhibition organizer, was born in Japan in 1929. In the 1950s he carried
Matsuki's Hiroshima Panels throughout Japan as a travelling exhibit. Upon publishing a book "Takiguchi Shuzo oboegaki" in
1961, he became a member of Art Critics Association. In 1965, he founded an artist-run gallery, Modern Art Center of Japan.
Yoshida organized an art performance, Haisen Bansankai (Dinner Party Commemorating WWII Defeat, 1962) and Festival of Humans
and Earth (1970). He also supported political art such as Akasegawa Genpei's 1000-yen Trial (1965-67) and anti-expo art movement
(1969). He died in Tokyo, Japan, in 2016. Among his works are "Kaitaigeki no maku orite: 60-nendai zen'ei bijutsushi" (avant-garde
art history in the 60s) in 1982, and "Matsuzawa Yutaka Pusai no hako" (1983) where Yoshida edited the portfolio of the artist.
This collection was created by an art critic Yoshie Yoshida (1929-2016), and ranges from monographs, serials and audiovisual
material to scrapbooks, article clippings, exhibition programs, posters and correspondence. Monographs center on exhibition
catalogs, materials on surrealism, and books by/on particular artists (Shuzo Takiguchi, Genpei Akasegawa and Yutaka Matsuzawa).
Serials chiefly consist of newsletters from art museums and institutes. An extensive amount of materials and documents are
also found on Butoh (a Japanese avant-garde dance form). Other materials and documents cover social, political as well as
artistic events/movements in which Yoshida was involved, such as Ningen to Daichi no Matsuri (Festival of Humans and Earth),
Sanrizuka Struggle and Artist Union.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art critics -- Japan -- Archives.
Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Archives.
Yoshida, Yoshie