'Touch and Go' is the first book to comprehensively examine Yoshida's work in relation to his life in an educational institution, both as a student and a teacher.
... Ray Yoshida . Your use of comic cutouts recalls the black humor tradition of the Chicago Imagists . Can you talk about this lineage ? AH : Many members of The Hairy Who were active while I lived in Chicago during the 1990s . I often saw ...
... Ray Yoshida , " insinuated the work of ethnic primitive and modern naive artists into the curriculums of Chi- cago's future artists , historians , and critics . " 52 Art historian Halstead offered classes in surrealism , dada , African ...
... Ray Yoshida ? As a teacher , artist , and personality , Ray Yoshida has had an enormous influence on the history of art in Chicago . He has taught several generations of artists the delights of a scrupulous surface and the mysteries of ...
... Yoshida's comic book specimens are more closely related to this strange box than to his scrapbooks of parts and pages. Comic Book Specimen #15 (1969; fig. 4.12) channels ... Ray Yoshida , Comic Book Specimen # 15 ,. 164 ROBERT COZZOLINO.
... Ray Yoshida , ca. 1969 . Art Institute of Chicago , Institutional Archives , Whitney Halstead Papers Who , or the Chicago Imagists , who collected his art and variously channeled Yoakum's vision into their own ( Figs . 18 , 19 ) ...
... Ray Yoshida (1930–2009), and 'Anticultural Positions', the now famous and fully mythologized lecture Dubuffet delivered in Chicago in December 1951. Nutt and others sought out American examples of art brut, finding some now-canonical ...
... Ray Yoshida's comic abstraction art forms ) notes that making comic lat- tices to create space for " femme , brown , queer , and black mytholo- gies " is to " create another possibility for looking . " 35 Although I am not fully ...
... Ray Yoshida , Philip Hanson , and the late Roger Brown - all of whom assembled fine collections of the artist's work that they generously made available for study during this project . Other friends , acquaintances , and patrons of ...