Noguchi in Paris
Noguchi in Paris: The UNESCO Garden
Marc Treib
William Stout Publishers/UNESCO Publishing, 2003
Hardcover | 8 x 10-1/4 inches | 148 pages | 87 illustrations | English | ISBN: 0970973144 | $45.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
The garden for the UNESCO House in Paris marks a pivotal point in Noguchi's evolution as an environmental artist. Here he defines his vision of space rather than form as the essence of design. This is the first book to present an in-depth study of this important garden.
Marc Treib is professor of architecture emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a noted landscape and architectural historian and critic.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
This last Monday I featured the revised edition of Christian Tschumi's monograph on Japanese garden designer Mirei Shigemori. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to come across and buy the first edition when I was writing 100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs, which includes Shigemori's T?fuku-ji Temple Hondo Garden from 1939. Also in my book is Isamu Noguchi's UNESCO Garden, completed in Paris in 1958. The link between the two gardens is Shigemori, who met Noguchi in Japan in April 1957, showed the Japanese-American artist some of his gardens, and worked with him on the stone settings for the UNESCO commission. Tschumi described this experience as "one of the more important events" in Shigemori's life. Unfortunately, given Shigemori's fear of flying, he was never able to see in person ...
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