Oral history interview with Dong Kingman

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Oral history interview with Dong Kingman

1996 Jul. 3-4

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An interview conducted by Stan and Irene Poon Andersen on July 3-4, 1996, New York City, with Dong Kingman. Accompanying the interview are a few newspaper and magazine articles, and a photograph of Kingman, taken by Irene Poon Andersen, 1996. The material was compiled following the 1995 exhibition "With New Eyes: Toward An Asian American Art History in the West," for which Poon Andersen was a curator and exhibitor.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (60 min.) ; 2 x 1 1/4 in.Transcript: 18 p., supplementary material.

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