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"In a study that combines archival research, a firm grounding in the historical context, biographical analysis, and sustained attention to specific works of art, Amy Lyford provides an account of Isamu Noguchi's work between 1930 and 1950 and situates him among other artists who found it necessary to negotiate the issues of race and national identity. In particular, Lyford explores Noguchi's sense of his art as a form of social activism and a means of struggling against stereotypes of race, ethnicity, and national identity. Ultimately, the aesthetics and rhetoric of American modernism in this period both energized Noguchi's artistic production and constrained his public reputation"--
Book Synopsis Isamu Noguchi S Modernism by : Amy Lyford
Download or read book Isamu Noguchi S Modernism written by Amy Lyford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a study that combines archival research, a firm grounding in the historical context, biographical analysis, and sustained attention to specific works of art, Amy Lyford provides an account of Isamu Noguchi's work between 1930 and 1950 and situates him among other artists who found it necessary to negotiate the issues of race and national identity. In particular, Lyford explores Noguchi's sense of his art as a form of social activism and a means of struggling against stereotypes of race, ethnicity, and national identity. Ultimately, the aesthetics and rhetoric of American modernism in this period both energized Noguchi's artistic production and constrained his public reputation"--
This volume presents the ceramic oeuvre of Isamu Noguchi and includes other major ceramic artists from postwar Japan, analyzing the conflict between modernity and tradition and the search for cultural identity.
Book Synopsis Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics by : Louise Allison Cort
Download or read book Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics written by Louise Allison Cort and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the ceramic oeuvre of Isamu Noguchi and includes other major ceramic artists from postwar Japan, analyzing the conflict between modernity and tradition and the search for cultural identity.
Explores how the ancient world shaped innovative American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's inspirational vision for the future.
Book Synopsis Isamu Noguchi by : Dakin Hart
Download or read book Isamu Noguchi written by Dakin Hart and published by Giles. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the ancient world shaped innovative American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's inspirational vision for the future.
Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle—as both an artist and a man—was to embrace his conflicted identity as the son of a single American woman and a famous yet reclusive Japanese father. "It's only in art," he insisted, "that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all." In this remarkable biography of the elusive artist, Hayden Herrera observes this driving force of Noguchi's creativity as intimately tied to his deep appreciation of nature. As a boy in Japan, Noguchi would collect wild azaleas and blue mountain flowers for a little garden in front of his home. As Herrera writes, he also included a rock, "to give a feeling of weight and permanence." It was a sensual appreciation he never abandoned. When looking for stones in remote Japanese quarries for his zen-like Paris garden forty years later, he would spend hours actually listening to the stones, scrambling from one to another until he found one that "spoke to him." Constantly striving to "take the essence of nature and distill it," Noguchi moved from sculpture to furniture, and from playgrounds to sets for his friend the choreographer Martha Graham, and back again working in wood, iron, clay, steel, aluminum, and, of course, stone. Throughout his career, Noguchi traveled constantly, from New York to Paris to India to Japan, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the "keen edge of originality." Wherever he went, his needy disposition and boyish charm drew women to him, yet he tended to push them away when things began to feel too settled. Only through his art—now seen as a powerful aesthetic link between the East and the West—did Noguchi ever seem to feel that he belonged. Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him—from artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers—Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark. With the attention to detail and scholarship that made her biography of Gorky a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Herrera has written a rich meditation on art in a globalized milieu. Listening to Stone is a moving portrait of an artist compulsively driven to reinvent himself as he searched for his own "essence of sculpture."
Book Synopsis Listening to Stone by : Hayden Herrera
Download or read book Listening to Stone written by Hayden Herrera and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle—as both an artist and a man—was to embrace his conflicted identity as the son of a single American woman and a famous yet reclusive Japanese father. "It's only in art," he insisted, "that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all." In this remarkable biography of the elusive artist, Hayden Herrera observes this driving force of Noguchi's creativity as intimately tied to his deep appreciation of nature. As a boy in Japan, Noguchi would collect wild azaleas and blue mountain flowers for a little garden in front of his home. As Herrera writes, he also included a rock, "to give a feeling of weight and permanence." It was a sensual appreciation he never abandoned. When looking for stones in remote Japanese quarries for his zen-like Paris garden forty years later, he would spend hours actually listening to the stones, scrambling from one to another until he found one that "spoke to him." Constantly striving to "take the essence of nature and distill it," Noguchi moved from sculpture to furniture, and from playgrounds to sets for his friend the choreographer Martha Graham, and back again working in wood, iron, clay, steel, aluminum, and, of course, stone. Throughout his career, Noguchi traveled constantly, from New York to Paris to India to Japan, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the "keen edge of originality." Wherever he went, his needy disposition and boyish charm drew women to him, yet he tended to push them away when things began to feel too settled. Only through his art—now seen as a powerful aesthetic link between the East and the West—did Noguchi ever seem to feel that he belonged. Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him—from artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers—Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark. With the attention to detail and scholarship that made her biography of Gorky a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Herrera has written a rich meditation on art in a globalized milieu. Listening to Stone is a moving portrait of an artist compulsively driven to reinvent himself as he searched for his own "essence of sculpture."
Book Synopsis Beyond Received American Modernism by : Naoko Uchiyama
Download or read book Beyond Received American Modernism written by Naoko Uchiyama and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modernism in Isamu Noguchi's Garden for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library by : Larisa L. Sandford
Download or read book Modernism in Isamu Noguchi's Garden for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library written by Larisa L. Sandford and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Venues: Yokohama Museum of Art, January 12-March 24, 2019; The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, May 1-July 14, 2019; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, September 27-December 8, 2019. This exhibition is made possible through lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Book Synopsis Changing and Unchanging Things by : Dakin Hart
Download or read book Changing and Unchanging Things written by Dakin Hart and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Venues: Yokohama Museum of Art, January 12-March 24, 2019; The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, May 1-July 14, 2019; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, September 27-December 8, 2019. This exhibition is made possible through lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
A man of inexhaustible energy and invention, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi was always in motion. Ranging across the century and filled with engaging persons and places, Noguchi's story is a compelling one. This book includes little-known documentary photographs from the artist's own archives and striking full-color images from every aspect of his multifaceted career.--[book cover].
Book Synopsis Isamu Noguchi by : Bruce Altshuler
Download or read book Isamu Noguchi written by Bruce Altshuler and published by Modern Masters Series. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man of inexhaustible energy and invention, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi was always in motion. Ranging across the century and filled with engaging persons and places, Noguchi's story is a compelling one. This book includes little-known documentary photographs from the artist's own archives and striking full-color images from every aspect of his multifaceted career.--[book cover].
This nuanced portrait of Gordon Bunshaft and his work for the architecture firm SOM explores his role in defining the built aesthetic of corporate America.
Book Synopsis Gordon Bunshaft and SOM by : Nicholas Adams
Download or read book Gordon Bunshaft and SOM written by Nicholas Adams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nuanced portrait of Gordon Bunshaft and his work for the architecture firm SOM explores his role in defining the built aesthetic of corporate America.
In an insightful portrait of the personal struggles and triumphs of artist Isamu Noguchi, new light is cast on his life and career based on his letters and reminiscences, as well as interviews with his friends and colleagues.
Book Synopsis The Life of Isamu Noguchi by : 昌代・ドウス
Download or read book The Life of Isamu Noguchi written by 昌代・ドウス and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insightful portrait of the personal struggles and triumphs of artist Isamu Noguchi, new light is cast on his life and career based on his letters and reminiscences, as well as interviews with his friends and colleagues.