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...Marie Harriman Gallery in Manhattan this week went shapes in polished nickel, bronze, marble, wood and plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...
...paraded around town in a motor truck before being strung to a tree. A drugstore was ransacked for boxes, counters, sample cases to build a fire beneath the corpse. Cooked by the flames, the muscles of George Hughes's arms and legs twisted themselves up into the knots Isamu Noguchi eternally preserved in Death...
...store, an exhibition which they loudly proclaimed had been rejected as "too extreme" by the imposingly colonnaded Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. Eastern critics were bewildered. No longer ago than October the Legion of Honor Palace gave California its first view of the work of Isamu Noguchi, about as "extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled...
Medicine was harder ploughing than he thought. Isamu Noguchi drifted back to sculpture, attending night classes at Manhattan's Leonardo da Vinci Art School, where he was discovered with loud hosannahs by Director Onorio Ruotolo who took him into his home, gave him his own studio to work in. worked over him as hard as any horse trainer with a promising yearling. In 1927 the colt came through with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi went to Paris and immediately apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Constantin Brancusi. one of the few sculptors to have a piece of pastry named...
...much modern stuff is so bitter, so hopeless." explained Isamu Noguchi. "To me, at least. Miss Expanding Universe is full of hope...