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			'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

			'by Anthony W. Lee''

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	''Image provided by Anthony Lee''		''Image provided by Anthony Lee''

	When he painted [[Yun Gee and the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club\|Chinatown's]] streets in the mid-1920s in a small picture called ''San Francisco Chinatown'', Yun Gee found it best not to include any inhabitants, as if the quarter was most amenable to picturing when comprised entirely of its new pagoda street lamps (with bright rays emphatically jutting in all directions) and tall building facades. Chinatown seemed most coherent and consistent as a brilliant spectacle, devoid of social relations and daily activity. Its identity was best understood as a carefully constructed place. Part of the modernist, pseudo- cubist aesthetic lent itself to such an attitude, for it insisted on fitting together component parts into an overall set of surface relations. Brushes and strokes fell into jigsaw-like patterns, and the particular task for the painter was to provide a level of visual interest in the play of colored facets and edges.		When he painted [[Yun Gee and the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club\|Chinatown's]] streets in the mid-1920s in a small picture called ''San Francisco Chinatown'', Yun Gee found it best not to include any inhabitants, as if the quarter was most amenable to picturing when comprised entirely of its new pagoda street lamps (with bright rays emphatically jutting in all directions) and tall building facades. Chinatown seemed most coherent and consistent as a brilliant spectacle, devoid of social relations and daily activity. Its identity was best understood as a carefully constructed place. Part of the modernist, pseudo- cubist aesthetic lent itself to such an attitude, for it insisted on fitting together component parts into an overall set of surface relations. Brushes and strokes fell into jigsaw-like patterns, and the particular task for the painter was to provide a level of visual interest in the play of colored facets and edges.

	''--by Anthony W. Lee, excerpted from '''Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture''' (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998)''		''--by Anthony W. Lee, excerpted from '''Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture''' (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998)''

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San Francisco Chinatown''' by Yun Gee'''

''Image provided by Anthony Lee''

When he painted [[Yun Gee and the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club|Chinatown's]] streets in the mid-1920s in a small picture called ''San Francisco Chinatown'', Yun Gee found it best not to include any inhabitants, as if the quarter was most amenable to picturing when comprised entirely of its new pagoda street lamps (with bright rays emphatically jutting in all directions) and tall building facades. Chinatown seemed most coherent and consistent as a brilliant spectacle, devoid of social relations and daily activity. Its identity was best understood as a carefully constructed place. Part of the modernist, pseudo- cubist aesthetic lent itself to such an attitude, for it insisted on fitting together component parts into an overall set of surface relations. Brushes and strokes fell into jigsaw-like patterns, and the particular task for the painter was to provide a level of visual interest in the play of colored facets and edges.
''--by Anthony W. Lee, excerpted from '''Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture''' (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998)''

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