“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 (All day)
Department:
Public Programs
Conversations with Isamu Noguchi: a talk by Dore Ashton
Internationally renowned art historian and culture critic Dore Ashton, who has written extensively on Noguchi, discusses her close and enduring friendship with the artist, focusing on both the man and his work.
Dore Ashton teaches art history at the Cooper Union and is senior critic in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art. Ms. Ashton has lectured at the Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, and The New School, and was formerly editor at Arts Magazine and Art Digest and an art critic for The New York Times.
Ms. Ashton has written or edited thirty books on modern art and culture, with a special focus on the New York School and such artists as Mark Rothko and Joseph Cornell. In 1992, she published Noguchi East and West, a biography of Isamu Noguchi that highlighted the artist’s lifelong personal and artistic struggle to reconcile Western ideas with his Asian heritage. The volume examines Noguchi’s travels in the United States and abroad; his diverse work as sculptor and designer of public and private gardens, theater sets, and furniture; and his professional and personal relationships with fellow artists Constantin Brancusi, Arshile Gorky, and Henry Moore; dancer Martha Graham; actor/director John Gielgud; composer John Cage; and engineer/inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Ms. Ashton received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. from Harvard University.
