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Isamu Noguchi

• 1980 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- 16mm
• Isamu Noguchi is a survivor, a legendary figure who obsessively pursues ambitious artistic goals. His work exists outside current styles. Though his sculpture is an ambiguous fusion of modern and historical impulses, an active fusion of West and East, it retains an identifiable character. He is not content to remain in safe, known forms for, as he says, "it's only mistakes that force you beyond your imagination to do something new." Sculpture is "a silent enduring gravitate." Among the works shown are: Sunken Garden, Chase Manhatten Bank, New York City, 1964; Red Cube, New York City, 1968; Fountains, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970; Black Sun, Seattle, 1972; Sky Viewing, Bellingham, 1972; Fountain, Detroit, 1978.
• Topics: (Artists, Landscape Architecture, Sculpture)

		Educational Media Collection risimiki@u.washington.edu Modified: January 11, 2007