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Herrera, Hayden.
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Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
Sculptors -- United States -- Biography
Japanese American sculptors -- Biography.
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Herrera, Hayden.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
Sculptors -- United States -- Biography
Japanese American sculptors -- Biography.
MARC Display
Listening
to
stone
: the
art
and
life
of
Isamu
Noguchi
/ Hayden Herrera.
by
Herrera, Hayden.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Call #:
730.92 N778h
Subjects
Noguchi
,
Isamu
, 1904-1988.
Sculptors -- United States -- Biography
Japanese American sculptors -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374281168 (hc.)
0374281165 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Art
and
life
of
Isamu
Noguchi
.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 575 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Parents -- Dear Baby -- Tokyo -- Chigasaki -- St. Joseph College -- Interlaken -- La Porte -- I became a sculptor -- I will rival the immortals -- Out from the shadow of a big tree -- Head buster -- To find nature's reasons -- A close embrace of the Earth -- Lonely traveler, social lion -- Toward a sculpture of space --
Art
with a social purpose -- Mexico -- New York, 1936-39 -- California -- Poston -- MacDougal Alley -- Letters to Ann --
Noguchi
and Martha Graham, passionate collaborators -- The rock and the space between -- Tara -- 1946-48 -- Impasse -- Bollingen travels -- Harbinger pigeon -- Shinbanraisha -- Mitsukoshi exhibition -- Yoshiko Yamaguchi -- Kita Kamakura -- My solace has always been sculpture -- UNESCO : a somewhat Japanese garden -- Changed visions -- Priscilla -- Working with
Noguchi
-- Levitating rocks, wings of prayer -- Toward an autobiography -- A primer of shapes and functions -- The wheat itself -- "Red cube, black sun" -- The
stone
circle -- "To intrude on nature's way" -- A place for people to go -- Imaginary landscapes -- "California scenario" -- Bayfront Park -- All things worthwhile must end as gifts -- Kyoko -- No beginnings, no endings.
Summary:
"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 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. 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
.
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"--Provided by publisher.
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