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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lyford, Amy, 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Noguchi, Isamu, > 1904-1988 > Criticism and interpretation. Modernism (Art) > United States. Art and society > United States > History > 20th century. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)

Table of Contents:

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."