Isamu Noguchi's art continues to speak in a bold and pioneering international language. In this auto-biography, the sculptor describes his youth as Constantin Brancusi's studio assistant in Paris and his journey into a position of central influence in twen-tieth-century art. His carvings in stone and marble and his works in bronze, cast iron, aluminum, and terra cotta can be seen in public and private collections throughout the world. His sculpture also includes gardens, architectural projects, playgrounds, lamps,inventions, and dance set designs. For Noguchi, the theater of dance, which involves the movement of bodies in relation to form and space, is sculpture come to life; his lamps are self-illuminated sculptures.

This long-awaited new edition of A Sculptor"s World,Isamu Noguchi"s 1968 autobiography, remains the most comprehensive statement about the sculptor and his art. Just as the jet airplane and the communications satellite represent determining technological events in the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) helped shaped art and design for the annals of American modernism. Succinctly recounted in words and illustrated with scores of images, A Sculptor"s World is indispensable reading for those interested in the life and work of a bicukural artist who succeed-ed in his efforts to cross boundaries of traditions,cultures, and artistic disciplines. Also reprinted in this volume is the original foreword to the book by R. Buckminster Fuller, along with a new preface by Bonnie Rychlak, Curator for The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.

Isamu Noguchi"s art continues to speak in a bold and pioneering international language. In this auto-biography, the sculptor describes his youth as Constantin Brancusi"s studio assistant in Paris and his journey into a position of central influence in twen-tieth-century art. His carvings in stone and marble and his works in bronze, cast iron, aluminum, and terra cotta can be seen in public and private collections throughout the world. His sculpture also includes gardens, architectural projects, playgrounds, lamps,inventions, and dance set designs. For Noguchi, the theater of dance, which involves the movement of bodies in relation to form and space, is sculpture come to life; his lamps are self-illuminated sculptures.

A Sculptor"s World contains detailed descriptions of Noguchi"s major projects, including such celebrated works as the "jardin japonais" for the UNESCO head-quarters in Paris, and the sculpture gardens at Yale University, Chase Manhattan Plaza, and the National Museum in Jerusalem. Noguchi saw garden design as the sculpturing of space, and the creation of space in architecture as an extension of sculpture. A Sculptor"s World demonstrates the extraordinary breadth of interest that made Noguchi, in Buckminster Fuller"s words, "the most comprehensive artist without peer in our times."

FOREWORD by R. Buckminster Fuller

Acknowledgement

A SCULPTOR"S WORLD

THEATER

INTO LIVING

 invention architecture

 gardens playgrounds

List of Illustrations

Photograph Sources

Index