Book Announcement

The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan
Joyce Brodsky
(University of Washington Press, April 2008)

In this generously illustrated volume, teacher, author, and critic Joyce Brodsky brings together works by the expatriate Chinese painter Yun Gee (1906-1963) and his Chinese American daughter, Li-lan, exploring connections between these artists’ lives and paintings.  Both artists can be understood as cosmopolitan and transnational figures—citizens, in Homi Bhabha’s terms, of contemporary culture’s “middle passage.”  As artists who have embraced multinational, multicultural, and multiracial experiences, Yun Gee and Li-lan have combined those experiences intrinsically, sometimes in spite of the pain that such a complex passage may entail.

“Experiences of Passage represents an ambitious effort to trace the complex processes of transnational movement, cross-cultural identifications, and mixing through the work of Yun Gee and Li-lan.” — Margo Machida, University of Connecticut

Experiences of Passage is a 248-page, hardcover book with 70 illustrations.  For more information, visit:  http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BROEXP.html