Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps

by Jane E. Dusselier

From 1942 to 1946, as America prepared for war, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly interned in harsh desert camps across the American west. In Artifacts of Loss, Jane E. Dusselier looks at the lives of these internees through the lens of their art. These camp-made creations included flowers made with tissue paper and shells, wood carvings of pets left behind, furniture made from discarded apple crates, gardens grown next to their housing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813544084
• ISBN13: 9780813544083
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"