{"id":2369,"date":"2009-12-07T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/12\/07\/landslides-in-art-part-2-landslide-by-chiura-obata\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T09:34:00","slug":"landslides-in-art-part-2-landslide-by-chiura-obata-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/12\/07\/landslides-in-art-part-2-landslide-by-chiura-obata-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 2: &quot;Landslide&quot; by Chiura Obata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art.  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/landslides-in-art.html\">Part One can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named &#8220;Landslide&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_12-Obata.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 316px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_12-Obata.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>For me this is a powerful image for two reasons.  First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path.  Second, of course 1941 was a very difficult time to be a Japanese-American; indeed between 1942 and 1943 Obata was detained by the authorities, during which time he was attacked and hospitalised for a fortnight.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named &#8220;Landslide&#8221;: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,185],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artwork","tag-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}