Isamu Noguchi

A study of the life and works of Isamu Noguchi through 1978 examining his from illustrations & sculpture to furniture and landscape architecture. Includes biographical text with illustrations in color and black and white throughout. A must have for any Noguchi collector.  From the dust jacket: IF ANY SINGLE LIVING ARTIST may be said to sum up in his life and work the sources and sensibilities that characterize the art of the 20th century, it is the American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi was born in 1904 in Los Angeles. His father was Japanese, his mother American. As a child, he was taken to Japan, where he lived till he was fourteen, then returned home to continue his education. When Noguchi decided to become a sculptor he studied with the American academic-realist Gutzon Borglum. Later, he went to Paris and worked with the great Rumanian abstract sculptor, Constantin Brancusi. In Paris he also became familiar with the works of Picasso, Giacometti and Calder. Returning to Americ