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...deliberating Noguchi. Immobilized by a back injury two years ago, and no longer able to work with big stones, he turned to little ones that were lying around his studio in Shikoku, Japan (he has another in New York City). Many of them were lumps of gray Aji granite on which his assistants had been practicing their pointing technique; others were basalt pebbles, dusty brown outside, dense black within. Some of the granite stones he grouped in twos and threes, nesting them into one another so that they seem to have flowed together. With the basalt, he split some stones...
...lifetime that he nearly did not have, Nagare has become a cult. A robust, prolific artist, he is a perfect idol, with the handsomely chiseled features of a Kabuki actor. He is a loner who despises the city's chatter and works in an isolated village called Aji, 360 miles from Tokyo. But there is not a trace about him of the dainty refinement long associated with Japanese art. "Think of what the ancient Egyptians did or even the Romans," says the maker of monuments, regretting the current shrunken scale of sculpture...