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Sadakichi Hartmann
Art critic, poet and novelist (1867-1944)
Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) was a critic and poet of German and Japanese descent. Hartmann, born on the artificial island of Dejima, Nagasaki and raised in Germany, became an American citizen in 1894. An important early participant in modernism, Hartmann was a friend of such diverse figures as Walt Whitman, Stéphane Mallarmé and Ezra Pound. His poetry, deeply influenced by the Symbolists as well as Eastern literature, includes 1904's Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems, 1913's My Rubaiyat, and 1915's Japanese Rhythms. His works of criticism include Shakespeare in Art (1901) and Japanese Art (1904). During the 1910s, Hartmann was temporarily recognized as a sort of 'King of Bohemia' in New York's Greenwich Village. Later years found him living in Hollywood and Banning, California. He made a brief appearance in the Douglas Fairbanks film The Thief of Bagdad as the court magician. In 1944, he died visiting his daughter in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Hartmann wrote some of the earliest English language haiku. He was also one of the first critics to write about photography.
- Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Sadakichi Hartmann)
- Jane Calhoun Weaver (ed.), Sadakichi Hartmann: Critical Modernist. University of California Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0520067677
- "Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910. Jane Weaver has recovered and assembled over fifty of Hartmann's critical writings from influential, though often obscure, turn-of-the-century journals. These reviews and theoretical essays not only provide some of the earliest known criticism of important artists and photographers of the period, but also make Hartmann's fundamental--and uniquely American--definition of modernism available to students of art and cultural history. A most useful adjunct to the text is a complete bibliography of Hartmann's writings on art, as well as an annotated checklist of all the artists treated by Hartmann in this book."
- Cary Nelson (comp.), "Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944)". In: Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000).
- Extensive resource; includes long biographical sketch by Prof. George Knox; literary portraits of Hartmann by contemporaries; illustrations from a 1970 exhibition on Hartmann mounted by the Library at the University of California, Riverside; and a bibliography.
- "Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) | Introduction". Enotes.com (Literature - Literary Criticism - 20th Century)
- Biographical sketch, with brief discussions of his major literary works, and his critical reception.
- William Bryk, "King of the Bohemians". The New York Sun (January 26, 2005).
- Relates many colorful anecdotes of Hartmann's life in New York City's Greenwich Village during the late 19th/early 20th century.
- David Ewick, "12. Hartmann, Sadakichi. Works 1898?~1915". In: Japonisme, Orientalism, Modernism: A Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse of the Early 20th Century
- An assessment of Hartmann's role in introducing Japanese poetry to Westerners, especially through his 1904 published study of Japanese poetics including haiku and tanka.
- Archives: "Inventory of the Sadakichi Hartmann Papers" (University of California, Riverside)
- Detailed finding aid for the collection (45 cartons).