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Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern brings together more than eighty
works, from six decades, which reveal how the ancient world shaped
this inspirational artist s vision for the future. Monolithic
basalt sculptures and floating Akari ceiling lights are juxaposed
with works that use stone, water, and light to call to mind
elemental structures in civilization across time. Noguchi saw
himself as equal parts artist and engineer and this volume devotes
special attention to his patented designs, such as Radio Nursethe
first baby monitor, and also includes his designs for stage sets,
playgrounds, and utilitarian articles, many of which are still
being produced today. "
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Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form (Hardcover)
Brendan Fernandes; Text written by Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrick Folkerts, Dakin Hart, …
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be
available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open
Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
The Hasegawa Reader is an open access companion to the bilingual
catalogue copublished with The Noguchi Museum to accompany an
international touring exhibition, Changing and Unchanging Things:
Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan. The exhibition features the
work of two artists who were friends and contemporaries: Isamu
Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa. This volume is intended to give
scholars and general readers access to a wealth of archival
material and writings by and about Saburo Hasegawa. While Noguchi's
reputation as a preeminent American sculptor of the twentieth
century only grows stronger, Saburo Hasegawa is less well known,
despite being considered the most literate artist in Japan during
his lifetime (1906-1957). Hasegawa is credited with introducing
abstraction in Japan in the mid 1930s, and he worked as an artist
in diverse media including oil and ink painting, photography, and
printmaking. He was also a theorist and widely published essayist,
curator, teacher, and multilingual conversationalist. This valuable
trove of Hasegawa material includes the entire manuscript for a
1957 Hasegawa memorial volume, with its beautiful essays by
philosopher Alan Watts, Oakland Museum Director Paul Mills, and
Japan Times art writer Elise Grilli, as well as various unpublished
writings by Hasegawa. The ebook edition will also include a dozen
essays by Hasegawa from the postwar period, and one prewar essay,
professionally translated for this publication to give a sense of
Hasegawa's voice. This resource will be an invaluable tool for
scholars and students interested in midcentury East Asian and
American art and tracing the emergence of contemporary issues of
hybridity, transnationalism, and notions of a "global Asia."
A landmark examination of the art and artists inspired by American
dance from 1830 to 1960 As an enduring wellspring of creativity for
many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual
language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the
allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is
the first major investigation of the visual arts related to
American dance, offering an unprecedented, interdisciplinary
overview of dance-inspired works from 1830 to 1960. Fourteen essays
by renowned historians of art and dance analyze the ways dance
influenced many of America's most prominent artists, including
George Caleb Bingham, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, John
Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, Isamu Noguchi, Aaron Douglas,
Malvina Hoffman, Edward Steichen, Arthur Davies, William Johnson,
and Joseph Cornell. The artists did not merely represent dance,
they were inspired to think about how Americans move, present
themselves to one another, and experience time. Their artwork, in
turn, affords insights into the cultural, social, and political
moments in which it was created. For some artists, dance informed
even the way they applied paint to canvas, carved a sculpture, or
framed a photograph. Richly illustrated, the book includes
depictions of Irish-American jigs, African-American cakewalkers,
and Spanish-American fandangos, among others, and demonstrates how
dance offers a means for communicating through an aesthetic, static
form. Distributed for the Detroit Institute of Arts Exhibition
Schedule: Detroit Institute of Arts (03/20/16-06/12/16) Denver Art
Museum (07/10/16-10/02/16) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
(10/22/16-01/16/17)
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Bosco Sodi (Hardcover)
Dakin Hart, Juan Manuel Bonet
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Sodi has described his creative process as controlled chaos that
makes something completely unrepeatable and unique. In his most
celebrated body of work, the artist mixes raw pigment with sawdust,
wood, pulp, and natural fibers to create the dense surfaces of
monochrome paintings. As the layers of material dry, fissured
landscapes form without the guidance or intervention of the artist.
Sodi's sculptural process reflects traditions of his Mexican
heritage. At his studio, Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, he uses raw earth
clay to create kiln-fired cubes, spheres, and bricks. Stacked into
columns as minimalist sculpture or assembled as a field or wall,
these projects range in scale from architectural installations to
earthworks. Sodi also collects solidified volcanic magma from the
Ceboruco volcano to make rock sculptures. These fragments are
coated in a ceramic glaze and precious metals, uniting geological
processes with art-making techniques. This book reflects Sodi's
distinct material processes, with essays detailing his relationship
to Oaxacan and wabi-sabi aesthetics, as well as his engagement with
artistic traditions ranging from minimalism to arte povera to land
art.
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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