Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt out of place in Cincinnati, where he has spent his 40-odd years. Graduate of no university, at 20 he was a dentist, then studied medicine, now teaches physiology at the University of Cincinnati. Three visits to Japan resulted in his biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi; his laboratory pets gave him the material for Lives (TIME, May 2, 1932). Swart, tousle-headed, he says: "I am not much to look at. ... I am an authority on the cockroach. I know considerable about the Japanese. I play Beethoven constantly and abominably. . . . You can find me in my laboratory...
...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, close-cropped...
From then on Sculptor Noguchi piled up an ever-increasing amount of critical praise. He returned to New York, made a series of excellent portrait heads. Crop-headed Lincoln Edward Kirstein, esthetic son of the vice president of Filene's Department Store, introduced him to Harvard University where his exhibition was considered important enough for the Crimson, undergraduate daily, to run a front-page headline: NOGUCHI AT HARVARD. The Arts Club of Chicago took him up. In 1930 he started around the world, saw his family in Tokyo for the first time in years. He showed some Japanese portrait heads...
...exhibition which opened last week will move to San Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
...much modern stuff is so bitter, so hopeless." explained Isamu Noguchi. "To me, at least. Miss Expanding Universe is full of hope...