Book Description
A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. Told in words and images, A Sculptor's World is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the life and work of this seminal artist or a general interest in the art of sculpture. Also reprinted in this volume is the original foreword to the book by R. Buckminster Fuller, from which the above quote is taken. In my long experience as an intimate witness of Noguchi's work, I believe that whatever the external entities of his coordinate translating may be, they represent a faithful manifest of the intellectual and harmonic being, Noguchi. In my estimation, the evoluting array and extraordinary breadth of his conceptioning realizations document a comprehensive artist without peer in our time.--R. Buckminster Fuller Foreword by Bonnie Rychlak. Clothbound, 9.25 x 10 in./260 pgs / 13 color and 255 b & w.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This new edition of A Sculptor's World, Isamu Noguchi's autobiography, remains the most comprehensive statement about the sculptor and his art. Just as the jet airplane and the communications satellite represent determining technological events in the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) helped shape art and design for the annals of American modernism. Succinctly recounted in words and illustrated with scores of images, A Sculptor's World is indispensable reading for those interested in the life and work of a bicultural artist who succeeded in his efforts to cross boundaries of traditions, cultures, and artistic disciplines. Also reprinted in this volume is the original foreword to the book by R. Buckminster Fuller, along with a new preface by Bonnie Rychlak, Curator for The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.

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