{"product_id":"the-saburo-hasegawa-reader","title":"The Saburo Hasegawa Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaburo Hasegawa is considered the most literate artist in Japan during his lifetime (1906–1957). Hasegawa is credited with introducing abstraction in Japan in the mid-1930s, and he worked as an artist in diverse media including oil and ink painting, photography, and printmaking. He was also a theorist and widely published essayist, curator, teacher, and multilingual conversationalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis valuable trove of Hasegawa material includes the entire manuscript for a 1957 Hasegawa memorial volume, with its beautiful essays by philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished writings by Hasegawa.[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357402308948,"sku":"A8B-27084","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/saburo.jpg?v=1790811962","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/the-saburo-hasegawa-reader","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}