Research Catalog

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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Details

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
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General
• Japanese American sculptors
• Sculptors
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780374281168
• 0374281165
• 9780374712969 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014031274

OCLC

• 879582754
• SCSB-10100638

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library