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Isamu Noguchi

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Isamu Noguchi (1904 - 1988) was active/lived in New York, California / Japan.  Isamu Noguchi is known for Abstract sculpture, mod mediums.

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 Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion of American sculpture.  With his large abstract pieces he combined mediums such as stone, wood, and marble, included the use of water and light, and had opposing textures of rough and smooth.  He also introduced themes of tension and gravity and through this and positioning, explored relationships between objects. "Noguchi shows how well he has absorbed the Japanese manner of placing objects so that they seem to emerge inevitably from the ground rather than to be located arbitrarily in space." (Baigell, 255)

He experimented widely with new materials, used aluminum extensively, and created the first illuminated sculptures, and in much of his work, the bases were an integral part of the sculpture.  He did environmental art and earthworks such as Play Mountain, (19   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4746 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Isamu Noguchi

   Publications  Book References:  146
Magazine References:  46

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46 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Isamu Noguchi
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America The Future, As It Was December 2006 Princenthal, Nancy Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2006 Masello, David Yes
ARTFORUM Preview May 2006 Editors Yes
Art & Antiques Crossing Cultures February 2006 Goldstein, Doris Yes
American Art Review American Studio Sculpture: December 2004 Early 20th Century Works Yes
Art & Auction Gallery Calendar December 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
Art & Auction A Winter's Tales December 2004 Keats, Jonathan Yes
ARTFORUM Useful Noguchi November 2004 McElheny, Josiah No
ARTFORUM Noguchi's Lost Heart November 2004 Wagner, Anne M Yes
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
Art & Antiques A & A Update September 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art Times New Art Books September 2004 Editors, Art Times No
ARTFORUM Fall 2004 Preview September 2004 Editors, Artforum No
ARTnews The Noguchi Museum September 2004 Wei, Lilly Yes
Art & Antiques A & A Update July 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
American Art Review Mount Holyoke College Art Museum June 2004 Doezema, Marianne Yes
ARTnews Tending Noguchi's Garden June 2004 McGee & Beck Yes
Art-Talk Art Buzzzz May 2004 Editors, Art-Talk Yes
The Magazine Antiques Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern January 2004 Albrecht, Donald Yes
Art in America Reciprocal Debts December 2003 Koplos, Janet Yes
Art & Antiques Clear Purpose December 2003 Maneker, Roberta Yes
Art in America Seeing Noguchi Anew December 2003 Tuchman, Phyllis Yes
Art-Talk New York? New York! October 2003 Bass, Ruth No
ARTnews ARTtalk October 2003 Berwick, Carly Yes
Art in America Front Page September 2003 Editor, Art in America Yes
ARTnews QNS Jubilee April 2002 Clifford, Katie Yes
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2002 Bryant, Kathy; Cathy Byrd Yes
American Art Review American Art and Design in Atomic February 2002 Stayton, Kevin L Yes
ARTnews National News November 2001 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Front Page March 2001 Editor, Art In America No
Art & Antiques Mid-Century Modernists December 2000 Mason, Brook S Yes
ARTnews Instinct and Intuition August 2000 Rowlands, Penelope Yes
ARTnews Reviews November 1999 Editors Yes
ARTnews The Stones of Mure September 1999 Itoi, Kay Yes
Art in America Front Page July 1999 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Noguchi's Monumental Legacy November 1998 Itoi, Kay Yes
Art in America Front Page October 1998 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 1998 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary June 1997 Editors, Artnews Yes
Art in America Report from Japan: Art: Live and in March 1997 Heartney, Eleanor Yes
Architectural Digest Architectural Digest Visits October 1995 Aronson, Steven Yes
ARTnews REviews April 1995 Matthew Marks Yes
ARTnews Books March 1995 Editors, Art News No
ARTFORUM Bookforum/Book Reviews November 1994 AF editors No
Architectural Digest Isamu Noguchi September 1994 Lufty, Carol Yes
Art in America Border Crossings July 1994 Brandauer, Aime Yes
146 Book References for Isamu Noguchi
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Pollack, Deborah C. Palm Beach Visual Arts 200 Yes
2006 Beardsley, John Earthworks and Beyond: Contempory Art in the Landscape 239 No
2006 Roussel, Christine The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center 159 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2004 Duus, Masayo; Peter Duus The Life of Isamu Noguchi Journey Without Borders 439 No
2004 Fuller, Buckminster; Bonnie Rychlak Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World (reprint) 260 Yes
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2001 Finn, David 20th Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden 144 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Strick, Jeremy Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Water 46 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese Redefining American History Paintng 409 No
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1994 Altshuler, Bruce Isamu Noguchi 0 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Geldzahler, Henry Making It New Essays, Interviews and Talks 369 No
1994 National Gallery of Art Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 283 No
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1993 Oles, James/Karen Reiman South of the Border Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947 296 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Rupp, James M. Art in Seattle's Public Places: An Illustrated Guide 320 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Melosh, Barbara Engendering Culture Manhood & Womanhood in New Deal Public Art & Theater 297 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Grove, Nancy Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Noguchi, Isamu The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum 284 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Marshall, Richard 50 New York Artists 118 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Kramer, Hilton The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984 445 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Barnett, Vivian Endicott 100 Works by Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Museum 211 Yes
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Naumann, Francis M Mary and William Sisler Collectio
(Exhibition catalog)		 324 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Hunter, Sam Isamu Noguchi 75th Birthday Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Cummings, Paul Artists in Their Own Words Interviews by Paul Cumminggs 242 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts Santa Fe Collects
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1972 Ashton, Dore The New York School A Cultural Reckoning 246 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1972 Neilson, Katharine B Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery 343 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Blumenthal, Arthur Inaugural Exhibition 19th & 20th Cen Art from Collections of Alumni
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1970 Boston University American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1970 Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum Collection Selections from/1900-1970 437 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Geldzahler, Henry New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 494 Yes
1969 Lieberman, William Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1969 National Mus Mod Art, Tokyo Contemporary Art Dialogue between East and West
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
1968 Gordon, John Isamu Noguchi
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
1968 Noguchi, Isamu Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World 259 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1946 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Fourteen Americans
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro) Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1932 Museum of Modern Art American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932
(Exhibition catalog)		 135 No
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