Isamu Noguchi

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A SCULPTOR'S WORLD by Isamu Noguchi Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller
Noguchi is the twentieth-century artist, as representative of his time as the jet airplane and the communications satellite. The son of a Bryn Mawr-educated American mother and a Japanese poet, Noguchi's work in whatever medium speaks a bold and pioneering international language.
In this autobiography, the sculptor takes us from his youth as Brancusi's stonecutter in Paris to his key position of influence in today's art world. His carvings in stone and marble and his works in bronze, cast iron, aluminum and terra cotta can be seen in public and private collections throughout the world. But his sculpture also includes theater designs, gardens, architectural projects, playgrounds, lamps and inventions. For him, gardens are the sculpturing of space, and the creation of space in architecture is an extension of sculpture. The theater (especially the theater of the dance), which involves the movement of... Tovább

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A SCULPTOR'S WORLD by Isamu Noguchi Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller
Noguchi is the twentieth-century artist, as representative of his time as the jet airplane and the communications satellite. The son of a Bryn Mawr-educated American mother and a Japanese poet, Noguchi's work in whatever medium speaks a bold and pioneering international language.
In this autobiography, the sculptor takes us from his youth as Brancusi's stonecutter in Paris to his key position of influence in today's art world. His carvings in stone and marble and his works in bronze, cast iron, aluminum and terra cotta can be seen in public and private collections throughout the world. But his sculpture also includes theater designs, gardens, architectural projects, playgrounds, lamps and inventions. For him, gardens are the sculpturing of space, and the creation of space in architecture is an extension of sculpture. The theater (especially the theater of the dance), which involves the movement of bodies in relation to form and space, is sculpture come to life; lamps are self-illuminated sculptures.
The book contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of all his major projects, including such celebrated works as Solitude and Mitosis, the "jardin japonais" for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the sculpture gardens at Yale University, Chase Manhattan Plaza and the new National Museum in Jerusalem. A Sculptor's World demonstrates the extraordinary breadth of interest that makes Noguchi, in Buckminster Fuller's words, "the comprehensive artist without peer in our times."
With 13 color plates and 255 black-and-white plates. Vissza