LISTENING TO STONE. THE ART AND LIFE OF ISAMU NOGUCHI

A master of what he called the sculpturing of space, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mot her and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged anywhere and spent his life assembling identities in his statues, mon uments, and gardens. He traveled incessantly from New York to remote Japanese islands, from Paris to Bangladesh, synthesizing aesthe tic values. The result--massive sculptures of interlocking wood, Zen-like gardens of granite, and stone slides--is now seen as a pow erful ar...[Llegir més]