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"It is a rare pleasure to find a thoughtful, readable book that opens a new perspective on a major artist by revealing a hitherto little-known facet of his career. . . . Beautifully illustrated."--Library Journal -- Review
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Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs. Far less familiar, but no less important, is Noguchi's work in clay, which he executed in three intensive sessions in 1931, 1950, and 1952, all during visits to Japan. The pieces included in this elegant volume and the accompanying exhibition comprise the first major museum presentation of Isamu Noguchi's ceramics and the introduction of the work of major postwar Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi collaborated or interacted. Supported by four linked essays and opulently illustrated in full color and black and white, Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics highlights the sculptor's struggles with cultural identity and his experimentation with the conflicts between modernity and tradition.
"It is a rare pleasure to find a thoughtful, readable book that opens a new perspective on a major artist by revealing a hitherto little-known facet of his career. . . . Beautifully illustrated."--Library Journal -- Review
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Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs. Far less familiar, but no less important, is Noguchi's work in clay, which he executed in three intensive sessions in 1931, 1950, and 1952, all during visits to Japan. The pieces included in this elegant volume and the accompanying exhibition comprise the first major museum presentation of Isamu Noguchi's ceramics and the introduction of the work of major postwar Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi collaborated or interacted. Supported by four linked essays and opulently illustrated in full color and black and white, Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics highlights the sculptor's struggles with cultural identity and his experimentation with the conflicts between modernity and tradition.
Noguchi's sculptures in the medium of clay reveal informal, spontaneous, and humorous aspects not visible in less flexible media such as bronze or stone. Through clay, Noguchi probed unresolved personal issues surrounding his ambiguous cultural identity as the son of a Japanese father and American mother. Because Noguchi made his ceramics in Japan, his work also creates links to a diversity of approaches within the ceramic world of Japan. These range from traditionalists such as Kitaoji Rosanjin and the Living National Treasure designates, to primitivists exemplified by Okamoto Taro and Tsuji Shindo, to avant-garde experimentalists led by the Sodeisha group. An understanding of the nature and scope of the concerns Noguchi expressed through clay is crucial to understanding his work as a whole, and consideration of Japanese ceramic artists in the 1950s reveals a largely unknown genre of modern Japanese art.
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"My first recollection of joy," Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) wrote in his 1968 autobiography, was creating the "form of a sea wave, in clay with a blue glaze." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stoneware with white slip, sculpture division, ceramics exhibition, stable gallery, red stoneware, tomb figurines, hourglass form, bell child, ceramics world, unglazed stoneware, ash glaze, ceramic work, clear glaze, iron pigment, crafts division, young potters, clay slab, kiln sites, school exhibition, white stoneware, unglazed clay, ceramic sculpture, black pottery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isamu Noguchi, Museum of Modern Art, Kita Kamakura, Yagi Kazuo, United States, Arts Club, Yone Noguchi, Yamada Hikaru, Kitaóji Rosanjin, Koyama Fujio, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Okamoto Taro, Suzuki Osamu, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Sculptor's World, Takiguchi Shúzó, Uno Ninmatsu, Kenmochi Isamu, Lonely Tower, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kawai Kanjiro, Kaneshige Tóyó, Martha Graham, Yellow Seto New!
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"My first recollection of joy," Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) wrote in his 1968 autobiography, was creating the "form of a sea wave, in clay with a blue glaze." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stoneware with white slip, sculpture division, ceramics exhibition, stable gallery, red stoneware, tomb figurines, hourglass form, bell child, ceramics world, unglazed stoneware, ash glaze, ceramic work, clear glaze, iron pigment, crafts division, young potters, clay slab, kiln sites, school exhibition, white stoneware, unglazed clay, ceramic sculpture, black pottery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isamu Noguchi, Museum of Modern Art, Kita Kamakura, Yagi Kazuo, United States, Arts Club, Yone Noguchi, Yamada Hikaru, Kitaóji Rosanjin, Koyama Fujio, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Okamoto Taro, Suzuki Osamu, Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Sculptor's World, Takiguchi Shúzó, Uno Ninmatsu, Kenmochi Isamu, Lonely Tower, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kawai Kanjiro, Kaneshige Tóyó, Martha Graham, Yellow Seto New!
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- Isamu Noguchi (Modern Masters Series) by Bruce Altshuler on 23 pages
- Constantin Brancusi by Friedrich Teja Bach on 4 pages
- Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years by Bert Winther-Tamaki on page 191, page 203, and Back Matter
- The World of Japanese Ceramics by Herbert Sanders on page 189, page 191, and Back Matter
- Isamu Noguchi by Okada on page 200, page 201, and page 203
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