Sculptor Isamu Noguchi's ties to Seattle are significant and enduring. Black Sun, a granite disk, is situated before the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, and has become one of the city's most beloved landmarks. Sky-Viewing Sculpture at Western Washington University in Bellingham is user-friendly and popular. Born in 1904 in Los Angeles, Noguchi spent his early years in both Japan and the United States. In 1927 a Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Paris where he became Constantin Brancusi's studio assistant and ...
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Sculptor Isamu Noguchi's ties to Seattle are significant and enduring. Black Sun, a granite disk, is situated before the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, and has become one of the city's most beloved landmarks. Sky-Viewing Sculpture at Western Washington University in Bellingham is user-friendly and popular. Born in 1904 in Los Angeles, Noguchi spent his early years in both Japan and the United States. In 1927 a Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Paris where he became Constantin Brancusi's studio assistant and plunged into abstract and geometric work. Studies in China and Japan led to an appreciation of Zen gardens and a respect for nature. This book illustrates a number of his works.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Unpaginated large octavo, clean and colorful throughout, tight binding, clean b/w pictorial boards with mild wear to the back, old price sticker on back.
Edition:
no edition stated, presumed first edition
Publisher:
abbeville press.
Published:
1978
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8209396574
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Seller's Description:
Fine in very good dust jacket. dust jacket is near-fine, minor signs of handling to back panel only. 334 p.; illus.; index; bibliography; profusely illustrated, color plates, b/w ill. wide folio, major monograph on noguchi.
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Seller's Description:
Like New. Size: 10x9x0; Massive hardcover in jacket looks unread and new but for faint sun fade to left side of front panel of jacket. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.