Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi is both a sculptor and a designer. Committed to the most traditional craftsmanship as well as to the most avant-garde discoveries, he evolved, throughout his career, between the East and the West.

Trained in the United States after a childhood spent in Japan, Noguchi moved to Paris in 1927, where he became the assistant to Constantin Brancusi. He associated with the great names of modern art such as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, and Alexander Calder, who would forge his conception of the materiality of sculpture. He also developed a passion for the relationship between sculpture, space, and the body, aspiring to "transcend the art of objects." He regularly collaborated with the world of theater and dance, whose numerous photographic archives reproduced in this book offer an insight into the power of his sculptural spaces.

Isamu Noguchi is an artist who remains relatively unknown in France, whose kaleidoscopic body of work makes him one of the great proponents of breaking down barriers between the arts and their integration into our daily lives.

French edition

Published: 03/15/2023
208 pages
213 x 281 mm
Paperback
ISBN: 9782080282569

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