{"id":23112,"date":"2012-05-15T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23112"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:21:19","slug":"the-life-of-isamu-noguchi-journey-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23112","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/7808.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2004<br \/>\n440 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\n36 halftones<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780691127828<\/p>\n<p><strong>Masayo Duus<\/strong><br \/>\nTranslated by <strong>Peter Duus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/7808.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/images\/k7808.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2005 Non-fiction Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, Pacific Rim Voices<\/li>\n<li>One of Choice&#8217;s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isamu_Noguchi\" target=\"_blank\">Isamu Noguchi<\/a>, born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> 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. <strong>Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His personal struggles\u2014as well as his many personal triumphs\u2014are vividly chronicled in <em>The Life of Isamu Noguchi<\/em>, the first full-length biography of this remarkable artist. Published in connection with the centennial of the artist&#8217;s birth, the book draws on Noguchi&#8217;s letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast new light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships.<\/p>\n<p>During his sixty-year career, there was hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. <strong>He produced more than 2,500 works of sculpture, designed furniture, lamps, and stage sets, created dramatic public gardens all over the world, and pioneered the development of environmental art.<\/strong> After studying in Paris, where he befriended <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Calder\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Calder<\/a> and worked as an assistant to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constantin_Brancusi\" target=\"_blank\">Constantin Brancusi<\/a>, he became an ardent advocate for abstract sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Noguchi&#8217;s private life was no less passionate than his artistic career. The book describes his romances with many women, among them the dancer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Page<\/a>, the painter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frida_Kahlo\" target=\"_blank\">Frida Kahlo<\/a>, and the writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin\" target=\"_blank\">Ana\u00efs Nin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite his fame, Noguchi always felt himself an outsider. &#8220;With my double nationality and my double upbringing, where was my home?&#8221;<\/strong> he once wrote. &#8220;Where were my affections? Where my identity?&#8221; Never entirely comfortable in the New York art world, he inevitably returned to his father&#8217;s homeland, where he had spent a troubled childhood. This prize-winning biography, first published in Japanese, traces Isamu Noguchi&#8217;s lifelong journey across these artistic and cultural borders in search of his personal identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prologue<\/li>\n<li>Chapter One: Yone and Leonie<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Two: His Mother&#8217;s Child<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Three: All-American Boy<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Four: Journey of Self-Discovery<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Five: Becoming a Nisei<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Six: The Song of a Small<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Seven: Honeymoon with Japan<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Eight: The World of Dreams<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Nine: The Universe in a Garden<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Ten: Encounter with a Stonecutter<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Eleven: Farewell to s Dreamer<\/li>\n<li>Epilogue<\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bibliography<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgments<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Photgraphy Credits<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,1245,11,8,17],"tags":[10738,10739,10740,325],"class_list":["post-23112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-isamu-noguchi","tag-masayo-duus","tag-peter-duus","tag-princeton-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53429,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112\/revisions\/53429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}