Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture: The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden (Museum of Fine Arts)
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Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture: The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden (Museum of Fine Arts) Details
About the Author ALISON DE LIMA GREENE is curator for contemporary art and special projects at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Read more
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This is truly a remarkable volume in presenting the Noguchi genius as a superb setting for world-class sculptors. The greatest sculptors of modern times grab our attention in his natural, breathtaking settings as though captured in a moment personal only to our self alone.I note again that Valerie J. Fletcher's description of his "United State's education" does nothing to dispel the dominant ignorance that he was like a foreign child attending a private boarding school. NOT SO. He grew up as a typical Hoosier teenager living with a local family in LaPorte, Indiana and graduated from its public High School. These little known years of the child becoming a young man shaped the spirit and the genius of this future world-famed artist. Noguchi's formidable Indiana experiences should be an explosive note in American Arts history. --Glenn Ralston