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Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi

Title
Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi / Hayden Herrera.
Author
Herrera, Hayden
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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Description
viii, 575 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--
Subject
  • Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
  • Sculptors > United States > Biography
  • Japanese American sculptors > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JQE 15-64
ISBN
  • 9780374281168
  • 0374281165
LCCN
2014031274
OCLC
879582754
Author
Herrera, Hayden, author.
Title
Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi / Hayden Herrera.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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JQE 15-64
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