Leo Amino: The Visible and the Invisible

Artwork by Leo AminoEdited with text by Genji AminoTexts by Julie Amino, Aruna D'Souza, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lucy R. Lippard, Susette Min, Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Mary Whitten, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and Karen YamashitaChronology by Genji Amino and Christina Hiromi HobbsAfterword by Jeff ArnalThe first monograph to be published featuring the work of the Japanese American artist, Leo Amino: The Visible and the Invisible introduces a vital revision into both the canon of 20th century avant-garde sculpture and the history of Asian American art. Amino is the first artist in the United States to take up plastics as a principal material of sculptural composition, the innovator of cast plastics in American sculpture, and the most represented artist of color in the history of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual exhibitions for sculpture after Isamu Noguchi. He is the only Asian American artist to teach on faculty in the history of the Summer Art Sessions at Black Mountain College, where he tau