Second-floor Galleries: 'Encounters: Sugamo Prison and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, 1946-48'. Installation/Exhibition by Bill Barrette and 'A Brief History of Manga'. First Floor (Gallery B) Martin Bromirski: 'New Paintings and drawings made in Japan'.
May 22 - August 4, 2002
Second-floor Galleries
Encounters: Sugamo Prison and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, 1946-48
Installation/Exhibition by Bill Barrette
Installation by artist/guest curator Bill Barrette examining, from multiple perspectives, questions of
justice, truth, and the role of photography in constructing historical narratives relating to the Tokyo War
Crimes Trials and everyday life inside Sugamo Prison from 1946 to 1948.
Barrette's
installation/exhibition includes intimate, exquisitely crafted objects made from recycled materials by
Japanese prisoners, amateur photographs taken by American G.I. prison guards, official, archival
photographs and other documents of condemned Japanese prisoners, including former General Hideki
Tojo, Premier of Japan during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and drawings of everyday life inside the prison
by Japanese prisoners which were given to American prison guards, among other artifacts culled by
Barrette from U.S. veterans, the National Archives, and his own cousin, a former Sugamo prison guard.
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Second Floor Galleries
A Brief History of Manga
This complimentary exhibition in an adjacent gallery bridges earlier examples of drawing by Japanese prisoners in "Encounters" with
contemporary Japanese manga (comic book culture).
With selections made by Bill Barrette and Christopher Couch, an authority on the
history of American comic books and contemporary Japanese anime and manga, this exhibition offers a succinct introduction to manga
through a range of comic books and enlarged prints of select pages--some dealing explicitly with World War II and Sugamo Prison, as well
as exemplary drawings and paintings by up-and-coming Japanese artists.
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May 22 to July 7:
First Floor (Gallery B)
Martin Bromirski
New Paintings and drawings made in Japan
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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