Isamu Noguchi - "Not bad"

[Mulboyne]

I though I'd seen Noguchi on FG before But I can't find him in a cursory search...
WP: Isamu Noguchi Played It Safe, but His Touch Was Sure
On Thursday, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum opened a show called "Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor." Noguchi was not one of the great innovators of the 20th century. Most of his work built on ideas that others had before him. But he had a wonderful hand and eye. "Deft" is the word that springs to mind in looking at Noguchi's art, rather than "inspired."...Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904. His mother was Leonie Gilmour, a cultured American writer, who had a three-year relationship with Yone Noguchi, one of Japan's first modernist poets...more...

More Pictures (Flash Presentation) HERE

[vir-jin]

I got one of his lamps. There was a great retrospective in vitra design museum 2002.
http://www.design-museum.de/museum/ausstellungen/noguchi/index.php

cheapest purchase at
http://www.kagufun.com/chair_noguchi.htm

[goldenboy_ge]

When I read the title I thought you were actually talking about a person who doesn't look that bad..

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Noguchi's legacy: An entire park as a lasting work of art
SAPPORO-Sculptor Isamu Noguchi didn't live to see his dream realized. But 17 years after Noguchi first unveiled his design for a "sculptured park" to be built atop a landfill, Moerenuma Park is finally finished. Noguchi's last and largest work of art is 188.8 hectares of landscaped green space. That's big enough to hold 40 Tokyo Domes. It sprawls across flat marshlands that stretch north of Sapporo and cost 25 billion yen to complete. It was the sculptor's bequest to Sapporo, a city Noguchi once said he felt close to because it reminded him of the America he experienced during his youth. Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904, the son of an American mother and a Japanese father. He and his family moved to Tokyo in 1906, and he returned to the United States in 1918...more...

[Mulboyne]

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New film about Noguchi's mother.