About This Lesson
Kitasono Katue (1902--1978) was the best known Japanese poet-artist in Europe and the US during the middle half of the 20th century. Active from the mid-1920s as a pioneering avant-garde spirit, Kitasono made a priority of finding common ground with poets, artists and writers in Europe and the Americas. First entranced by Dadaism and Surrealism, he also thoroughly absorbed the ideas of Futurism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
