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Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, Noguchi Isamu, English: / nəˈɡuːtʃi /;[2] November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. [3]
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Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. Through a lifetime of artistic experimentation, he created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, landscapes, and set designs.
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- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Isamu Noguchi
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Isamu Noguchi's parents met when his mother, an American writer, was hired to assist his father, a young Japanese poet, with his English. By the time Noguchi was born in 1904, his father had returned to Japan. At two years old, Noguchi and his mother moved to Tokyo to live with his father, but left in 1910 for Omori and in 1912 for Chigasaki, where...
After graduating high school in Indiana, Noguchi spent a summer tutoring the son of sculptor Gutzon Borglum in Connecticut; in exchange he received training from the future Mount Rushmore sculptor, who asserted that Noguchi was talentless. Although Noguchi had wanted to be an artist since he was young, he entered Columbia University as a pre-med st...
Noguchi returned to New York in 1931 and became involved in the social and labor activism of the 1930s, when he executed designs for workers' memorials, public art projects and political works. During this period, Noguchi also designed sets for dance and theater performances, particularly for modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, with whom he c...
In 1962, Noguchi spent time in Italy as an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. Later that decade, while still in Italy, he began his banded marble works, for which he used a post-tension technique involving a tightened, internal metal rod holding the multicolored pieces together. Noguchi also started his Voidseries in Italy in 1970...
Although considered by some to be part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Noguchi's dual heritage and time abroad diverted his individual aesthetic toward a unique blend of Eastern and Western art. As a result, he had a distinct influence upon subsequent generations of modern artists, designers and architects. Noguchi's determined efforts to c...
Learn about Isamu Noguchi, a major artist who created abstract sculptures in stone, wood, and metal, inspired by Surrealism and Japanese culture. Explore his biography, ideas, accomplishments, and important artworks, such as Death (Lynched Figure) and History as Seen from Mexico.
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- November 17, 1904
- Los Angeles, California
- December 30, 1988
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was among the most innovative American sculptors of the twentieth century, creating works that were far ahead of his time.
- November 17, 1904
- December 30, 1988
Isamu Noguchi was an American sculptor and designer, one of the strongest advocates of the expressive power of organic abstract shapes in 20th-century American sculpture. Noguchi spent his early years in Japan, and, after studying in New York City with Onorio Ruotolo in 1923, he won a Guggenheim.
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Learn about Isamu Noguchi's life, works, exhibitions and publications at MoMA. Explore his sculpture, furniture, lighting, stage sets and public art projects around the world.
