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Masayo Duus: The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders.(Shorter notices)(Book Review)
translated by Peter Duus. Princeton, 432 pages, $29.95
The life of Isamu Noguchi is a store' of near-operatic proportions. His mother, Leonie, a Bryn Mawr girl, finds work as a translator in turn-of-the-century California. His father, Yonejiro ("Yone"), styles himself a Romantic poet of the European variety and books a third-class passage from Japan to stake an artistic claim in America. In 1904, as Yone is en route to Japan, Leonie gives birth to their illegitimate son--and a sculptor is born.
Isamu Noguchi's life as a mixed-race American is now the focus of Masayo Duus's new biography, and there are fascinating moments: Noguchi's voluntary internment during World War II, for example, and the fame ...
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- Bodies of light. (lamps designed by Isamu Noguchi)
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- Picture from: Magnum Photos Burt Glinn January 1, 1979 700+ words
...Bach on portable organ in front of a Isamu Noguchi sculpture in Marine MIdland Plaza...bach on portable organ in front of a isamu noguchi sculpture in marine midland plaza...bach on portable organ in front of a isamu noguchi sculpture in mari america north america...
