{"product_id":"listening-to-stone-the-art-and-life-of-isamu-noguchi-paperback","title":"Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHayden Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master of what he called \"the sculpturing of space,\" Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged anywhere and spent his life assembling identities in his statues, monuments, and gardens. He traveled incessantly from New York to remote Japanese islands, from Paris to Bangladesh, synthesizing aesthetic values. The result--massive sculptures of interlocking wood, Zen-like gardens of granite, and stone slides--is now seen as a powerful artistic link between East and West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on Noguchi's personal correspondence and interviews with artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers, Hayden Herrera creates another compulsively readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most important artists. Noguchi was elusive, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the \"keen edge of originality.\" Yet Herrera locates this man in his friendships with artists like Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women like Frida Kahlo. Herrera reveals his playfulness and his intense immersion in his work, from designing sets for Martha Graham to creating the Noguchi Museum in Queens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA rich meditation on art in a globalized milieu, \u003ci\u003eListening to Stone \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving portrait of an artist compulsively driven to reinvent himself as he searched for his own \"essence of sculpture.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Herrera is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated \u003ci\u003eArshile Gorky: His Life and Work\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eFrida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMatisse: A Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422293553459,"sku":"9780374535988","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aXdwZ0NURXpadEhkcGZGRlMwdU1PZz09.webp?v=1758559829","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/listening-to-stone-the-art-and-life-of-isamu-noguchi-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}