The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné: Artwork: This Tortured Earth: [195B-1/6]

195B-1/6

This Tortured Earth

1942 - 1943 (cast 1963)

Bronze

3 x 28 1/8 x 29 in. (7.6 x 71.4 x 73.7 cm)

Inscribed on underside: I. Noguchi '42 1/6

Number 1 from an edition of 6 (2 realized); conceived in magnesite

fabricated by Fonditori Artistici, Rome

Current Collection

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York

Provenance

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1982
Current collection, 2004

Published On

November 17 2011

Last Updated On

February 19 2015

Status

published

Related Exhibitions

Related Bibliography

Friedman, Martin. Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes. Exhibition catalogue. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1978.
Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.
Botnick, Diane and Nancy Grove. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980: i-xvii, 1-625
Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
Bourdon, David. "Land Art: Paradise Gardens, Provocative Earthworks." In Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature, 195– 231. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995: 195-231.
Buruma, Ian and Bonnie Rychlak. Noguchi and the Figure. Monterey: El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterey, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, 1999.
Torres, Ana Maria. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 2000.
Harris, Elizabeth Forsyth. "Sculptural Theatre: Isamu Noguchi's Sets for Martha Graham." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2000.
Rapaport, Brooke Kamin and Kevin L. Stayton. Vital Forms: American Art iand Designi n the Atomic Age 1940 - 1960. New York: Brookyn Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
Eisenbrand, Jochen, Katarina V. Posch, and Alexander Von Vegesack, eds. Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2002.
Lyford, Amy. "Noguchi, Sculptural Abstraction, and the Politics of Japanese American Internment." Art Bulletin 85, no. 1 (March, 2003): 137-151.
Fletcher, Valerie J., ed. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
List, Larry, ed. The Imagery of Chess Revisited. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, in association with George Braziller, Inc., 2005.
Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, Roslyn Harbor, New York: Nassau County Museum of Art, 2007.
Lyford, Amy. Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York: University of California Press, 2013.

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