Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi-倾听岩石：野口勇的艺术与生活

作者：Hayden Herrera

书名：Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi《倾听岩石：野口勇的艺术与生活》

中文简介：野口勇的母亲是一位迷人而充满悲剧色彩的人物，她一直萦绕在他的作品里，也在海伦拉这本Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi《倾听岩石：野口勇的艺术与生活》优美的传记中徘徊不去。

英文简介：A master of what he called "the sculpturing of space," Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged anywhere and spent his life assembling identities in his statues, monuments, and gardens. He traveled incessantly from New York to remote Japanese islands, from Paris to Bangladesh, synthesizing aesthetic values. The result--massive sculptures of interlocking wood, Zen-like gardens of granite, and stone slides--is now seen as a powerful artistic link between East and West.

Drawing on Noguchi's personal correspondence and interviews with artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers, Hayden Herrera creates another compulsively readable biography of one of the twentieth century's most important artists. Noguchi was elusive, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the "keen edge of originality." Yet Herrera locates this man in his friendships with artists like Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women like Frida Kahlo. Herrera reveals his playfulness and his intense immersion in his work, from designing sets for Martha Graham to creating the Noguchi Museum in Queens.