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Research and Resources - Bibliography of writings by and about Isamu Noguchi

Writings by Isamu Noguchi

Noguchi, Isamu. "Shelters of the Orient." Shelter (November 1932) p. 96.

_______. "What's the Matter with Sculpture?" Artfront 16 (September-October 1936) pp.  13-14.

_______. "On George Gershwin." In Merle Armitage, George Gershwin. New York, New York: Longmans, Green, 1938, pp. 209-210.

_______. "Trouble Among Japanese-Americans." New Republic 108 (February 1, 1943) p. 142.

_______. Statement in Dorothy Miller, 14 Americans. New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 39.

_______. "Cover." View Magazine (Fall 1946).

_______. "Noguchi Defines the Nature and Enormous Potential Importance of Sculpture - 'The Art of Spaces'." Interiors 109 (March 1949) pp. 118-123.

_______. "Meanings in Modern Sculpture." Art News 48 (March 1949) pp. 12-15, 55-56.

_______. "Towards a Reintegration of the Arts." College Art Journal 9 ( Autumn 1949) pp. 59-60.

_______. "Art and the People." Mainichi (June 16, 1950).

_______. "Isamu Noguchi." Arts & Architecture (November 1950) pp. 24-27.

_______. "Astronomical City." Portfolio (1951). Noguchi's photographs of astronomical gardens of Jai Singh in Jai Pur and Delhi, India.

_______. "Theatre of Heroes and Phantoms." Harpers Bazaar (June 1952) pp. 62-64.

_______. "Isamu Noguchi:  Projects in Japan."  Arts & Architecture 69 (October 1952) pp. 24-26.

_______. "Project: Hiroshima Memorial to the Dead." Arts & Architecture 70 (April 1953) pp. 16-17.

_______. "Rosanjin, Potter, and Cook." Vogue 123 (May 1954) p. 170.

_______. "Japanese Akari Lamps." Craft Horizons 14 (October 1954) pp. 16-18.

_______. "Akari." Arts & Architecture 72 (May 1955) pp. 14, 31.

_______. "Designer's Note." In William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear. London, England: The Folio Society, 1956.

_______. "The 'Arts' called 'Primitive."Art News 56 (March 1957) pp. 24-27, 64.

_______. "Project for the Monument of  Buddha." Arts & Architecture 74 (September 1957) pp. 16-17.

_______. "Garden of Peace." UNESCO Courier 11 (November 1958) pp. 32-33.

_______. "UNESCO Gardens." Arts & Architecture 76 (January 1959) pp. 12-13.

_______. "Sculpture Garden of the New National Museum of Jerusalem." Arts & Architecture 77 (October 1960) pp. 20-21.

_______. "Foreword." In Yukio Futagawa, The Roots of Japanese Architecture. New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

_______. "Collaboration: Artist and Architect." Arts & Architecture 79 (September 1962) p. 23.

_______. "Noguchi, the Sculptor, Acclaimed for Stage Settings and Designs for Ballet." Art Voices from around the World (December 1962) pp. 20-21.

_______. "New Stone Gardens." Art in America 52 (June 1964) pp. 84-89.

_______. Statement for Noguchi Stone Sculpture. New York, New York: Cordier & Ekstrom,  Inc., 1965.

_______. "A Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem." Ariel 10 (Spring 1965) pp. 31-32.

_______. "A Garden that is a Sculpture." Jerusalem Post, Special Supplement, Independence Day (May 1965).

_______. "Sculpture Garden." Arts & Architecture 82 (September 1965) pp. 27-29.

_______.  "Prophet Without Honor." Art in America 55 (November-December 1967) pp. 44-47

_______. A Sculptors World. Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. New York, New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

_______.  "The Sculptor and the Architect." Studio 176 (1968) pp. 18-20.

_______.  "A Reminiscence of Four Decades." Architectural Forum 136 (January-February 1972) p. 59.

_______. "My Sculpture." In Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi: May 14th-June 9th 1973 at Minami Gallery. Tokyo, Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan Design Center, 1973.

_______. "Like Rooms without Walls." Jerusalem Post (October 7, 1975) p. 5.

_______. "Noguchi on Brancusi." Craft Horizons 35 (August 1976) pp. 26-29.

_______. "On Washi." In Sukey Hughes, Washi: The World of Japanese Paper. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1976, pp. 25-26.

_______. Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces. New York, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.

_______. "Artists Statement." In Isamu Noguchi at Gemini 1982-1983.  Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., 1983. 

_______. "No Division Between Artist and Mask." In Spectacular Helmuts of Japan. New York, New York: Japan Society, 1985.

_______.  Isamu Noguchi: Stones. Osaka, Japan: Gallery Kasahara, 1985.

_______. "Manifesto." In Seven Stones. New York, New  York: The Pace Gallery, 1986.

_______. "The Meaning of Akari." In Okada, Takahiko, Isamu Noguchi: Space of Akari and Stone.  San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 1986, p. 4.

_______. The Noguchi Museum. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.

_______. "On the Structure and Carving of Bronze Plate." In Isamu Noguchi: The Bronzes: 1987-88. Osaka, Japan: Gallery Kasahara Annex, 1989.

_______. "Artists Statements." In Isamu Noguchi: Beginnings and Ends. New York, New York: The Pace Gallery (December 1994-January 1995).

 



 

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