303A
Bell Tower for Hiroshima
1950 (partially reconstructed 1986)
Terra-cotta, wood
50 5/8 x 31 x 31 in. (128.6 x 78.7 x 78.7 cm)
Not inscribed
One of 2 versions
Current Collection
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1988
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1997
Current collection, 2004
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1997
Current collection, 2004
Published On
November 17 2011
Status
published
All images ©INFGM
Related Exhibitions
- Isamu Noguchi, Mitsukoshi Department Store, August 18, 1950 - August 27, 1950
- Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, December 9, 1986 - March 2, 1987
- Isamu Noguchi and Rosanjin Kitaoji, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, March 7, 1996 - April 14, 1996
- Bollingen Journey: Noguchi's Travels Through Photographs and Drawings 1949 - 1951, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, February 11, 2003 - October 13, 2003
Related Bibliography
- Noguchi, Isamu. "Isamu Noguchi." Arts & Architecture 67, no. 11 (November 1950): Cover, 24-47.
- Kenmochi, Isamu. "Isamu Noguchi as I See Him." Industrial Art News 18, no. 10 (October 1950): 19-23.
- Taniguchi, K. "Isamu Noguchi's Design." Industrial Art News 18, no. 10 (October 1950): 25-26.
- Noguchi, Isamu. "Modern Trends in Interior Furnishings." Industrial Art News 18, no. 10 (October 1950): 18-19.
- Yoshitake, Mosuke. "Sculptor Noguchi's Work." Industrial Art News 18, no. 10 (October 1950): 24-26.
- Taniguchi, Yoshiro. "Exhibition of Isamu Noguchi." Review of exhibition, Isamu Noguchi at Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan. Bijutso Techo, no.35 (October 1950): 20-22.
- Drexler, Arthur. "Noguchi: Traveling Sculptor Pauses in Japan." Review of exhibition, Isamu Noguchi at Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan. Interiors 110, no. 9 (April 1951): 140-45.
- Louchheim, Aline B. "U. N. Rejects 'Model' Playground: Moses' Project Is Accepted Instead." New York Times, 7 October 1951.
- Louchheim, Aline B. "Noguchi and 'Sculptured' Gardens." New York Times(30 September 1951), X9.
- Noguchi: 1931/50/51/52/ Japan. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1953.
- Katharine Kuh. "An Interview with Isamu Noguchi." Horizon 11 (March 1960): 104-112. Reprinted in The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, by Katarine Kuh. New York: Harper and Row, 1962: 171-187.
- "Imagine That." Review of exhibition, Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Passages, April 1978.
- Friedman, Martin. Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes. Exhibition catalogue. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1978.
- 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
- Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985: i-xx, 1-313.
- Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1986.
- Takahashi, Koji. Isamu Noguchi: Retrospective 1992. Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, 1992.
- Ashton, Dore. Noguchi East and West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1992.
- Winther, Bert. "Isamu Noguchi: Conflicts of Japanese Culture in the Early Postwar Years." PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1993.
- Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations, edited by Bruce Altshuler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, 1994.
- Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
- [Yomiuri Shimbun article]. Yomiuri Shimbun, ca. 1996.
- Torres, Ana Maria. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 2000.
- Winther-Tamaki, Bert. "Isamu Noguchi: Places of Affiliation and Disaffiliation" in Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years, 110-172. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001: 110-172.
- Cort, Louise and Bert Winther-Tamaki. Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth. Exhibition catalogue. Washington DC and Berkeley: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with University of California Press, 2003.
- Duus, Masayo. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders. Translated by Peter Duus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Sugiyama, Makiko. Banraisha: A Poetic Architecture by Toshiro Taniguchi and Isamu Noguchi. Tokyo: Kajima Institute Publishing, Inc., 2006.
- Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Five Ties Publishing, Inc. and the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2007.
- Sadao, Shoji. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends. New York: Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2011.
- Lyford, Amy. Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York: University of California Press, 2013.