Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction xv
7. Note on Translation xxiii
8. Saburo Hasegawa: A Brief Biography xxv
9. Part I. Artist of the Controlled Accident
10. 1. The Controlled Accident 3
11. 2. The Paintings of Saburo Hasegawa 4
12. 3. Saburo Hasegawa: Master of the Controlled Accident 12
13. 4. Saburo Hasegawa as a Leader in Modern Art in Japan 18
14. 5. Selected Writings by Saburo Hasegawa 23
15. Part II. Remembrances of Former Students
16. 6. Remembrances of Former California College of Arts and Crafts Students 35
17. Part III. Selected Letters to Isamu Noguchi
18. 7. Selected Letters from Hasegawa to Isamu Noguchi, 1950–1951 41
19. Part IV. Selected Essays by Saburo Hasegawa
20. 8. On Sesshu, 1934 53
21. 9. Sesshu, 1948 60
22. 10. The New Art, 1948 71
23. 11. Conversations with Isamu Noguchi June 8 and 9, 1950 76
24. 12. Days with Isamu Noguchi, 1950 80
25. 13. Rambling Words on Song-Yuan Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1950 84
26. 14. Mondrian: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 93
27. 15. Arp: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 99
28. 16. Letters from France and America: An Essay on the New Occident and the Old Orient, 1951 103
29. 17. Making the Katsura Imperial Villa Abstract, 1951 111
30. 18. Calligraphy and New Painting, 1952 114
31. 19. New Photography and Painting, 1953 119
32. 20. The Fate of American Artists, 1955 127
33. 21. Present-Day American Abstract Art, 1955 133
34. 22. Nationalism and Universalism in Japanese Art, 1955 139
35. Notes 161