This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition entitled Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics. It presents Isamu Noguchi's major ceramic works and the story behind their creation. It also introduces the work of prominent postwar Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi collaborated or interacted. An understanding of the nature and scope of the concerns Noguchi expressed through clay is crucial to understanding his work as a whole, and consideration of Japanese ceramic artists in the 1950s reveals a largely unknown genre of modern Japanese art. With chronology of the artist.
Access level
Onsite
Location code
MON.NOI
Language
English
Keyword
ceramic art,  diaspora,  sculpture,  solo exhibition
Publication/Creation date
2004
ISBN / ISSN
0520239237
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph, 
catalogue
Chapter headings
The Ceramic Art of Isamu Noguchi: A Close Embrace of the Earth - Bert WINTHER-TAMAKI
The Modern Primitive: Discourse of the Visual Arts in Japan in the 1950s - Nimi RYU
Japanese Encounters with Clay - Louise Allison CORT
'Once an Oriental Always an Oriental': The American Display and Reception of Noguchi's Ceramics - Bruce ALTSHULER
Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics

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