American Decades
Isamu Noguchi's Sculpture
Isamu Noguchi, with Akari Light Sculptures
Sculpture
By: Isamu Noguchi
Date: c. 1950
Source: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., Long Island, New York.
A Sculptor's World
Memoir
By: Isamu Noguchi
Date: 1968
Source: Noguchi, Isamu. A Sculptor's World. New York: Harper & Row, 1968, 33, 159.
About the Artist: Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was born in Los Angeles of Japanese and Irish-American heritage. From the age of two to fourteen he was raised in Japan, returning to the United States for high school. Noguchi intended to study medicine, but after night classes in New York he realized he wanted to be a sculptor. Working with natural materials such as granite, marble, and wood, Noguchi's organic forms were featured in diverse contexts from public gardens to theater sets.
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1950's The Arts Primary Sources
- Isamu Noguchi's Sculpture
- Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
- Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
- Pianist Glenn Gould
- Art and Life of Lee Krasner
- "On a Book Entitled Lolita"
- "Choreography and the Dance"
- Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
- "Why I Wrote The Crucible"
- Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
- As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
- "Ivan Moffat: The Making of Giant"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
