Noguchi East and West (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dore Ashton
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography and art history
- Time of Work: 1904-1988
- Setting: The United States, France, Japan, and elsewhere
- Principal Characters: Isamu Noguchi
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Arts
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Sculpting or sculptors, Theaters, Japan or Japanese people, Sculpture, Modernism, Landscape architecture
- Locales: France, United States, Japan
Dore Ashton is a historian and critic whose numerous books and articles have covered three centuries of artistic achievement. Her subjects have included Jean-Honoré Fragonard from the eighteenth century, Rosa Bonheur from the nineteenth, and Philip Guston, Joseph Cornell, and Pablo Picasso, among others, from the twentieth. Of particular interest to her have been modern painting, architecture, and sculpture, especially as practiced in New York. Consequently, it is only natural that she should devote her latest book to a critical examination of the career of her longtime friend Isamu...
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