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	Encyclopedia: Isamu Noguchi
		Isamu Noguchi Biography: Isamu Noguchi traveled the world developing a style that borrowed from both rural craft...
		Noguchi was born in Los Angeles but spent much of his childhood abroad, in India, Paris and, primarily, Japan where he was trained as a cabinetmaker.
		Noguchi traveled to the town of Gifu in Japan to learn how the craftsmen made and worked with the traditional mulberry bark paper, and applied this knowledge to his lamps.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Isamu-Noguchi (1836 words)

	Isamu Noguchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isamu Noguchi (イサム・ノグチ, November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was a notable 20th century artist and landscape architect.
		Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles to an American writer, Leonie Gilmour, and a Japanese poet, Noguchi Yonejiro, on November 17, 1904.
		Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isamu_Noguchi (413 words)

	isamu noguchi biography
		isamu noguchi was born in los angeles in 1904
		isamu noguchi was raised in japan until, at 13,
		noguchi died in new york city in 1988.
	www.designboom.com /portrait/noguchi/bio.html (237 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -NOGUCHI, ISAMU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Noguchi, born in Los Angeles, spent his childhood in Japan, but was sent to America when he was thirteen where he completed high school in a small Indiana town.
		Noguchi's extensive experience in theater was decisive in forming his viewpoint of sculpture as a symbolic theater of life and the world.
		Although Noguchi won recognition for many undertakings, ranging from individual sculptures to commercially produced tables and lamps, his greatest achievements were the inspired works creating a total public space, which he thought of as a single sculpture.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_065300_noguchiisamu.htm (473 words)

	Isamu Noguchi: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles (A city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States) to an American writer, Leonie Gilmour, and a Japanese poet, Yonejiro Noguchi, on November 17, 1904.
		In 1906 he moved with his mother to join his father in Japan (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building), where he spent the rest of his childhood.
		In 1924 Noguchi dropped out of Columbia University (A university in New York City) to pursue sculpture (A three-dimensional work of plastic art) full-time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/isamu_noguchi.htm (671 words)

	American Masters . Isamu Noguchi \| PBS
		Isamu Noguchi was born Isamu Gilmour in Los Angeles in 1904 to Leonie Gilmour, an Irish-American teacher and editor, and Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet.
		For Noguchi, Japan was both his past and his future, providing him with a history of craftsmanship as well as aesthetic inspiration.
		Noguchi died in December of 1988 at the age of 84, but his influence continues to spread.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/noguchi_i.html (835 words)

	Isamu Noguchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space is the first comprehensive study of Noguchi's public works, including playgrounds, earthworks, gardens, parks, plazas, memorials, interior design, fountains, and sculptures.
		Noguchi moved between disciplines with ease, approaching landscapes from the point of view of an artist and seeking the absolute integration of sculpture, space, and building.
		Noguchi's Japanese-American heritage -- and his ongoing exploration of this dual identity -- also infused his designs with a unique understanding of both Eastern and Western traditions.
	www.monacellipress.com /books/IsamuNoguchi.shtml (305 words)

	Isamu Noguchi Biography: Isamu Noguchi traveled the world developing a style that borrowed from both rural craft ...
		Isamu Noguchi Biography: Isamu Noguchi traveled the world developing a style that borrowed from both rural craft traditions and the technologically focused urban planning and design community.
		Noguchi's pieces run the gamut from the simple and unabashedly functional, like a 1937 Bakelite baby monitor for Zenith, to purely decorative pieces and abstract art.
		Noguchi designed several three-legged tables of different sizes and matching stools (1949) supported by a wider, rudder leg in birch, accompanied by two metal legs.
	www.r20thcentury.com /bios/designer.cfm?article_id=77 (574 words)

	Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor - New York Magazine Art Review
		Isamu Noguchi was a man of dualities: West and East, coarse and refined, optimist and realist.
		Isamu Noguchi is an emblematic figure of the twentieth century: a man of unsettled background floating in the uncertain space between worlds.
		Noguchi took enormous care with the materials he used, so that the marble or slate or wood begged to be touched and appeared as vital as the skin of a human being.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/art/reviews/10257 (1236 words)

	Japanese American National Museum: Press Release: First Major Exhibition of Rarely Seen Ceramic Works by Isamu Noguchi ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Noguchi's visits to Japan proved to be especially intense and creative periods, when he exchanged new and innovative ideas with some of Japan's most prominent postwar ceramic artists, exploring issues of personal and national identity and ways in which the ceramic traditions of the past could inform and inspire contemporary work.
		Isamu Noguchi was born on November 17, 1904 in Los Angeles, the son of Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and American writer Leonie Gilmour, who separated soon after his birth.
		Noguchi, like other artists in his time, found that clay was a natural medium through which he could interpret and react to the struggle between tradition and modernity in postwar Japan.
	www.janm.org /about/press/10 (1662 words)

	Noguchi's Indiana Experience
		Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904, lived briefly in Japan and Indiana, rose to prominence in New York in the 1930s and 1940s and died in New York City in 1988." (Diane Heilenman, Dec 19 2004, The Louisville Courier-Journal)
		Rumely then arranged for Noguchi to spend the summer in Connecticut tutoring the son of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, later to become renowned for the monumental heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt he carved into the rock face of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
		The HUGE realization that famed sculptor Isamu Noguchi spent his formative school years in Indiana prompts us to consider the wisdom of preparing a timely series of monographs on the personal Heartland experiences and perspectives of Noguchi, Robert Indiana, and Michael Graves that may have framed important contributions to recent American culture.
	homepage.mac.com /gralston/oneNoguchi_000.htm (2167 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern Art
		Born in America in 1904 to a Japanese father and an American mother, Isamu Noguchi spent the majority of his childhood in Japan (1906—18) before going to the United States to continue his schooling (1918—24).
		Noguchi's sculptures and drawings from the mid-1940s are occupied with figurative and biomorphic imagery.
		Noguchi always contended that the organic quality of his work came not from Surrealist examples, however, but from his familiarity with traditional Japanese arts and crafts — bells, samurai swords, and floral arrangements.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=21&viewMode=1&item=53.87a-i (482 words)

	Art in America: Noguchi's Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Noguchi was a kind of nowhere man, constantly shifting his self-image by identifying first with his American and then with his Japanese roots.
		Masayo Duus's The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders (translated from the Japanese by Peter Duus) tells the story of Noguchi's colorful and often dramatic life, but her text is curiously uncompelling.
		Noguchi's statements often have a 1950s-style rhetoric; he waxes abstract, abstruse and ponderous in an effort to be profound.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_93/ai_n8590987 (1376 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Noguchi at 100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Noguchi centenary was recently celebrated in New York with a wide-ranging exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Oct 28, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005 (the show opens at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., Feb. 10-May 8, 2005).
		The life story of Isamu Noguchi, his unusual upbringing and family background, parallels the dramatic intensity of his creations, and enabled him to bridge two disparate cultures.
		That approach was demonstrated by a Noguchi playground design of the period, which was meant to bring urban children closer to the feel of the earth.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/stern/stern1-27-05.asp (2003 words)

	ISAMU NOGUCHI SCULPTURES AT THE CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
		Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was one of the most original artists of the 20th century, and a sculptor whose works defy categorization.
		Because of his background, Noguchi was adept at harmonizing opposites—East and West, old and new, traditional and modern, geometric and organic, figuration and abstraction.
		The sculptures on loan from The Isamu Noguchi Foundation illustrate the variety of the artist's approach and the simplicity and complexity of his work.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/SUMA/noguchipress.html (822 words)

	SCULPTOR ISAMU NOGUCHI COMMEMORATED ON U.S. POSTAGE STAMPS
		SCULPTOR ISAMU NOGUCHI COMMEMORATED ON U.S. WASHINGTON - Isamu Noguchi, one of the twentieth-century's most influential sculptors, was honored today by the U.S. Postal Service with the issuance of a commemorative stamp pane at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island, NY.
		Noguchi stamps are available at Long Island City Post Offices today and at Post Offices and philatelic centers nationwide tomorrow.
		Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_030.htm (813 words)

	Herman Miller - for Business - Noguchi Table
		The Noguchi table's balance of sculptural form and durable function has made it an understated and beautiful element in homes and offices since its introduction in 1948.
		To assure authenticity, the signature of Isamu Noguchi is discreetly etched in the edge of the top and on a medallion on the underside of the base; under the medallion, his initials are stamped into the base.
		Noguchi believed the sculptor's task was to shape space, to give it order and meaning, and that art should "disappear," or be as one with its surroundings.
	www.hermanmiller.com /CDA/SSA/Product/0,1592,a10-c440-p119,00.html (417 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 37¢ Isamu Noguchi Se-tenant PSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Isamu Noguchi was born on November 17,1904, in Los Angeles, California, but spent much of his childhood in Japan.
		Noguchi was inspired by the abstract simplicity of Brancusi's work and created his own abstract sculptures and gouache drawings.
		Noguchi died on December 30,1988, in New York, at the age of 84.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CDA4G.htm (455 words)

	Deft Benefits (washingtonpost.com)
		Noguchi was often at his best when he was working in new materials.
		Noguchi's sleek "Sun at Noon," from 1969, is just the kind of work that lost him favor with the next generation or two of modern radicals.
		Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor is at the Hirshhorn Museum, on the Mall at Seventh Street SW, through May 8.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17227-2005Feb11.html (2046 words)

	Isamu Noguchi: Kouros (53.87a-i) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in America in 1904 to a Japanese father and an American mother, Isamu Noguchi spent most of his childhood in Japan (1906–18) before returning to the United States to continue his schooling (1918–24).
		However, Noguchi always contended that the organic quality of his work came not from Surrealist examples but from his familiarity with traditional Japanese arts and crafts—bells, samurai swords, and floral arrangements.
		Although Surrealism no doubt played a part in Noguchi's use of biomorphic abstraction in the 1940s, he was already predisposed to it by an earlier and more memorable experience—that of working with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris while traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/11/na/hod_53.87a-i.htm (469 words)

	Noguchi, Isamu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He created many independent pieces of sculpture and is also well known for the abstract sculptural elements he designed as adjuncts to architecture, highly integrated environmental work such as the massive red cube made for the Marine Midland Bank building, New York City, and the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1969).
		Noguchi also created many playgrounds and stone sculpture gardens, e.g., in Mexico City and the UNESCO garden, Paris (1958).
		There are Noguchi museums in his former studios in Long Island City, New York, and in Japan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/no/NoguchiI.html (264 words)

	SCULPTOR ISAMU NOGUCHI WORK TO BE CELEBRATED ON 20 STAMPS FEATURING 5 WORKS
		Noguchi was noted for merging Western and Eastern influences and expanding the definition of sculpture.
		The Isamu Noguchi stamp pane will be available at the event and at Long Island City Post Offices May 18 and available at Post Offices and Philatelic Centers nationwide May 19.
		Noguchi received numerous honors throughout his career, especially during his later years.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_025.htm (1112 words)

	Smithsonian show celebrates sculptor Isamu Noguchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WASHINGTON -- Isamu Noguchi began as a carver of sensual, naturalistic human forms, then turned to daring exploration of abstract shapes using unusual materials like stainless steel and rice paper.
		Noguchi was impressed by Brancusi's devotion to polished surfaces and the direct handling of materials -- a break from processes of sculptors who had their wax or plaster models cast into metal at workshops.
		As an East Coast resident, Noguchi did not have to move to the camps -- only West Coast Japanese-Americans were forced to go -- but he volunteered to stay at a camp in Poston, Arizona, where he hoped to improve bleak conditions by designing playgrounds and gardens.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05048/457637.stm (691 words)

	Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs.
		Noguchi's sculptures in the medium of clay reveal informal, spontaneous, and humorous aspects not visible in less flexible media such as bronze or stone.
		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.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10025.html (441 words)

	Duus, M.; Duus, P., trans.: The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders.
		Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art.
		Noguchi was a consummate professional who excelled at whatever he undertook.
		"Noguchi believed that 'my longing for affiliation has been the source of my creativity.' This is something that his biographer, Masayo Duus, also knows, and she has here most persuasively presented the interpretation that Noguchi would most have endorsed.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7808.html (640 words)

	02-055 (Isamu Noguchi)
		Noguchi’s work, which will remain on display in front of Wilson Hall for the next three years, has been brought to campus on a long-term loan from the Isamu Noguchi Foundation.
		Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was an internationally known artist whose rich and diverse sculptural practice spanned more than 60 years.
		In 1985, he established the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City, N.Y. Situated in a converted factory building and surrounded by a garden that Noguchi himself designed, the museum displays more than 240 of his works, including his sculptures in wood, metal, stone and clay.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-055.html (741 words)

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