Listening to stone
Subtitle: the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
By: Hayden Herrera
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9780374281168; 9780374535988
Subjects: Sculptors; Japanese American sculptors; Biography
Description: "From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-552) and index.
Table of contents: title: Parents; title: Dear Baby; title: Tokyo; title: Chigasaki; title: St. Joseph College; title: Interlaken; title: La Porte; title: I became a sculptor; title: I will rival the immortals; title: Out from the shadow of a big tree; title: Head buster; title: To find nature's reasons; title: A close embrace of the Earth; title: Lonely traveler, social lion; title: Toward a sculpture of space; title: Art with a social purpose; title: Mexico; title: New York, 1936-39; title: California; title: Poston; title: MacDougal Alley; title: Letters to Ann; title: Noguchi and Martha Graham, passionate collaborators; title: The rock and the space between; title: Tara; title: 1946-48; title: Impasse; title: Bollingen travels; title: Harbinger pigeon; title: Shinbanraisha; title: Mitsukoshi exhibition; title: Yoshiko Yamaguchi; title: Kita Kamakura; title: My solace has always been sculpture; title: UNESCO : a somewhat Japanese garden; title: Changed visions; title: Priscilla; title: Working with Noguchi; title: Levitating rocks, wings of prayer; title: Toward an autobiography; title: A primer of shapes and functions; title: The wheat itself; title: "Red cube, black sun"; title: The stone circle; title: "To intrude on nature's way"; title: A place for people to go; title: Imaginary landscapes; title: "California scenario"; title: Bayfront Park; title: All things worthwhile must end as gifts; title: Kyoko; title: No beginnings, no endings.