Isamu Noguchi's modernism : negotiating race, labor, and nation, 1930-1950 /

In a study that combines archival research, a firm grounding in the historical context, biographical analysis, and sustained attention to specific works of art, Amy Lyford provides an account of Isamu Noguchi's work between 1930 and 1950 and situates him among other artists who found it necessa...

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Main Author: Lyford, Amy, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Labor. Earthworks, the Depression Economy, and Monument to the Plow -- Modernism, Public Art, and Sculpture as Social Practice in the 1930s -- Reinventing Labor in New York -- Race. Negotiating Japanese American Confinement -- Reimagining Humanity in the 1940s -- Noguchi, Asian America, and Artistic Identity in Postwar New York -- Postscript: Beginnings and Ends at the Venice Biennale -- Appendix A. Noguchi's "A Plan for Government Sponsored Farm and Craft Settlement for People of Japanese Parentage" -- Appendix B. Noguchi's "I Become a Nisei." 
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