Word: isamu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...give it to Israel because it is hungrier for culture than any other country in the world." Rose has also made sure that his sculpture will have a spectacular setting: on an olive-studded hill in Jerusalem is the five-acre Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and landscaped with 10,000 tons of earthen fill and contoured escarpment...
...additional attention by its long-defiant challenge to the chemists' skill. Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify. But Japanese science has finally turned the trick. For establishing the molecular structure of tetrodotoxin, Professors Kyosuke Tsuda of Tokyo University, Yoshimasa Hirata of Nagoya University, Isamu Nitta of Kwansei Gakuin University, and Akira Yokoo of Okayama University have just won the prestigious Asahi prize...
...arguments seem minor compared with the sheer esthetic appeal of the new three-story glass-and-concrete headquarters quadrangle, which would cover a square block in Manhattan. The building rises near an apple orchard on a 443-acre estate, surrounds picturesque Japanese gardens in a courtyard designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
Louis Kahn and Sculptor Isamu Noguchi have produced a design for a $1,000,000 playground to be carved out of Riverside Park. Proposed as a memorial to the late Philanthropist Adele R. Levy, the layout includes a grass-covered amphitheater, a pyramid and some handsome free-form sculptures designed to tempt the clambering young. But by the time the park engineers, the evaluators, the experts and the mayor are through with the plans, many a moppet may well have hair gone grey at the temples...