Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modernbrings together more than eighty works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped this inspirational artist’s vision for the future. Monolithic basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are juxaposed with works that use stone, water, and light to call to mind elemental structures in civilization across time. Noguchi saw himself as equal parts artist and engineer and this volume devotes special attention to his patented designs, such as Radio Nurse—the first baby monitor, and also includes his designs for stage sets, playgrounds, and utilitarian articles, many of which are still being produced today.
Anything about 20th century art and design.
Not a text book. But would be good additional reading material for college level courses.
Explores how the ancient world shaped innovative American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's inspirational vision for the future.
Noguchi scholarship is only just beginning to turn to alternative views of the artist
Integrates art and design seamlessly in a way that makes Noguchi the avatar he deserves to be for the borderless, multi-disciplinary, anything goes way artists and designers work today.
Presents well-known objects in a new context.
Introduces wonderful, lesser-known objects.
Dakin Hart is senior curator at The Noguchi Museum. He was educated at Georgetown University and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi|Hayden |Herrera |9780374535988|25.00|Farrar, Straus and Giroux|2016&
Museum of Stones: Ancient and Contemporary Art at The Noguchi Museum|Dakin |Hart|9781907804861|34.95|D Giles Ltd|2016&
The Noguchi Museum - A Portrait, by Tina Barney and Stephen Shore|Stephen|Shore|9780714870281|49.95|Phaidon|2015&
The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Coll1
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