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Changing and Unchanging Things - Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan (Hardcover)
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Changing and Unchanging Things - Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan (Hardcover)
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In May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (1904-88) returned to Japan for his first
visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for
evolving the relationship between sculpture and society-having
emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his
work "toward some purposeful social end." The artist Saburo
Hasegawa (1906-57) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period,
making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and
material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European
avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930s,
was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity. By the time
Hasegawa and Noguchi met, both had been thinking deeply about the
balance between tradition and modernity, and indigenous and foreign
influences, in the development of traditional cultures for some
time. The predicate of their intense friendship was a thorough
exploration of traditional Japanese culture within the context of
seeking what Noguchi termed "an innocent synthesis" that "must rise
from the embers of the past." Changing and Unchanging Things is an
account of how their joint exploration of traditional Japanese
culture influenced their contemporary and subsequent work. The 40
masterpieces in the exhibition-by turns elegiac, assured,
ambivalent, anguished, euphoric, and resigned-are organized into
the major overlapping subjects of their attention: the landscapes
of Japan, the abstracted human figure, the fragmentation of matter
in the atomic age, and Japan's traditional art forms. Published in
association with The Noguchi Museum. Exhibition dates: Yokohama
Museum of Art, Japan: January 12-March 21, 2019 The Noguchi Museum,
New York: May 1-July 14, 2019 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco:
September 27-December 8, 2019
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