A SCULPTOR'S WORLD
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi, R. Buckminster Fuller (foreword): A SCULPTOR'S WORLD. NYC: Harper & Row, 1968. First American Edition. A fine hardcover book in a fine dust jacket: truly a collectors copy of this desireable early edition. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.9.75 x 10.5 hardcover book with 260 pages and 255 black and white and. 13 color plates. A magnificent production, finely printed in Japan. A SCULPTOR'S WORLD remains Noguchišs most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. Told in words and images, A SCULPTOR'S WORLD is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the life and work of this seminal artist or a general interest in the art of sculpture. Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller.
Contents:
- FOREWORD by R. Buckminster Fuller
- A SCULPTOR'S WORLD
- THEATER
- INTO LIVING: Invention, Architecture, Gardens, Playgrounds
Isamu Noguchi (19041988) was among the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century. Noguchi was born in Los Angeles to an Irish-American teacher and editor and a Japanese poet. He was raised in Japan until, at age 18, he was sent back to the United States to study. In 1926 Noguchi won one of the first Guggenheim fellowships and travelled to Paris, where he worked for six months as a studio assistant to sculptor Constantin Brancusi. In addition to his sculptural work, he created furniture and lighting for the Herman Miller Company, designed sets for choreographers Martha Graham and George Balanchine and collaborated with architect Louis I. Kahn, among others.
"In my long experience as an intimate witness of Noguchišs work, I believe that whatever the external entities of his coordinate translating may be, they represent a faithful manifest of the intellectual and harmonic being, Noguchi. In my estimation, the evoluting array and extraordinary breadth of his conceptioning realizations document a comprehensive artist without peer in our time." R. Buckminster Fuller
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