Art Students League of New York - Members of Art Students League of New York, Clyfford Still, Isamu Noguchi, William Glackens, Frank Stella (Paperback)

Chapters: Members of Art Students League of New York, Clyfford Still, Isamu Noguchi, William Glackens, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves, John Connell, Betty Parsons, Loren Munk, Fred Machetanz, Dell Weller. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isamu Noguchi Noguchi Isamu, November 17, 1904 December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold. Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when he joined with George Nelson, Paul Laszlo and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture. His work lives on around the world and at the The Noguchi Museum in New York City. Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, the illegitimate son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who had gained great acclaim in the United States, and Leonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of his work. Yone had ended his relationship with Gilmour earlier that year, instead planning to marry his true romance, Washington Post reporter Ethel Armes. After proposing to her, Yone left for Japan in late August, settling in Tokyo and awaiting Armes' arrival; their engagement fell through months later when she learned of Leonie and her newborn son. In 1906, Yone invited Leonie to come to Tokyo with their son. She at first refused, but growing anti-Japanese sentiment following the RussoJapanese War eventually convinced her to take up Yone's offer. The two depart...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=30170