Background Artist

Background Artist

The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong

Fang, Karen

Rutgers University Press

11/2024

536

Dura

9781978838413

15 a 20 dias

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PROLOGUE
NOTE ON NAMES AND TRANSLATIONS

PART I. NOT JUST A PAPER SON

1 Not Too Far from Alcatraz . . .
2 S.S. China
3 Paper Son
4 Look Get/Wong Sai Po
5 Angel Island, Devil's House
6 Alien, Excluded from Citizenship

PART II. BECOMING TYRUS

7 Boy Scouts, Baseball, and Apple Pie
8 Playing Hooky
9 "That City of Celestials"
10 "You Don't Want to Paint This Shit"
11 The Otis Years
12 "An Outstanding Student Who Warrants Reentry"
13 Dragon's Den, Artists' Lair



PART III. PROFESSION: ARTIST

14 Ruth
15 Thank God for the WPA!
16 A Family Blooms on Juanita Avenue
17 Man of the Forest
18 War ("I Am Chinese")
19 "Be a Good Boy"

PART IV. CHINA'S GREATEST GIFT TO WESTERN CULTURE

20 On the Warner Lot
21 Sunland, or Art of the Pacific
22 Model Minority?
23 America's Favorite Card Designer

PART V. ALWAYS LOOK UP

24 Go Fly a Kite
25 Faan heang haa (The Return)
26 An Empty Place in the Sky
27 Legend
28 A Well-Lived Life

Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
PLATES FOLLOW PAGE
Tyrus Wong; art; disney; asian; asian american; chinese american; immigrant; biography; Warner Bros.; warner bros; animation; cartoon; children's animation; media; film