Captured Arts

In Captured Arts: The Art of Japanese Imprisoned in Australasia During World War II, Richard Bullen, Tets Kimura, and other contributors draw on expertise in Japanese studies, art history, history, literary studies, music, and sociology and offer original scholarship on the role played by art and material culture in the prisoner of war (POW) and civilian internment camps which held Japanese people in Australasia in World War II. By examining the social, racial, political, and gendered contexts of the art works, this edited volume presents ground-breaking angles for understanding the marginalised experiences of the Japanese people imprisoned in wartime Australia and New Zealand, and the ways in which their lives have been memorialised.

Richard Bullen is associate professor of Japanese art history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Tets Kimura is an interdisciplinary researcher in creative arts at Flinders University, Australia.