American Decades
Red Cube
Sculpture
By: Isamu Noguchi
Date: 1968
Source: Noguchi, Isamu. Red Cube, 1968, red painted steel. Marine Midland Bank, 140 Broadway, New York City. Available online at: http://www.noguchi.org/redcube.htm (accessed February 26, 2003).
About the Artist: Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Japan and Indiana. In 1927, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He studied in Paris, where he was a studio assistant for Constantin Brancusis. Noguchi began creating public sculpture in the 1930s. Both Eastern and Western traditions influence Noguchi's sculpture and architectural work.
Introduction
Isamu Noguchi created public sculpture in the form of plazas, gardens, furniture, and interiors. He ignored the usual artistic boundaries, blending the art with something that would be useful to...
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1960's The Arts Primary Sources
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Heroine at Home"
- The American Dream
- Catch-22
- "All My Pretty Ones"
- The Civil Rights Movement in Art
- The Birds
- Where the Wild Things Are
- "A Hard Day's Night"
- Crying Girl
- Dutchman
- Creek
- Vietnam Poetry
- Red Cube
- House Made of Dawn
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- "Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theater of Harlem"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
