Isamu Noguchi (Modern Masters)

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Summary: accessible, significant, colorful, inexpensive
Review: Easily the most accessible guide to Noguchi's works of a lifetime. This edition is distinguished by large illustrations, many in color, presented in an inexpensive paperback.

It is perhaps the best primer for recognizing the significance of the wide ranging yet simple aesthetic gifts to the rest of us from this complex soul.

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Summary: Accessible, significant, colorful, inexpensive ...
Review: Greatest Hoosier artist ever? ... is a leading question. The sadly neglected tale of a shy 13 year-old boy traveling alone to LaPorte, Indiana for early schooling and known there as "Sam Gilmour", was later to become widely known as one of the world's greatest artists -- Isamu Noguchi (a future Jeopardy question?).

Accessible, significant, colorful, inexpensive, this Modern Masters volume by Bruce Altshuler is easily the most accessible guide to Noguchi's works of a lifetime. The edition is distinguished by large illustrations, many in color, presented in a less expensive paperback format. It is perhaps the best primer for recognizing the significance of the wide ranging yet simple aesthetic gifts from this complex soul to the rest of us.

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Summary: Great reference for Sculpture Class
Review: This book is filled with examples of Noguchi's artwork, mostly sculpture. I am currently enrolled in a Sculpture Class and found viewing the pictures a helpful reference for the sculptures I produced. It is most important as an artist to be influenced by other artists, and I feel that this book was successful in doing just that.