{"product_id":"isamu-noguchi-i-am-not-a-designer","title":"Isamu Noguchi: 'I am not a designer'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsamu Noguchi: 'I am not a designer'\u003c\/strong\u003e is the catalogue to the High Museum of Art's major retrospective of Noguchi's design work—the first exhibition and book in more than 20 years devoted to the full breadth of his design practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, at the height of his most productive years as a designer, Isamu Noguchi told a radio interviewer that he was not a designer at all. This book takes that denial as its starting point. Organised by the High Museum in Atlanta as part of its centenary, the exhibition and catalogue read Noguchi's 60-year career through the lens of design, arguing that what he called sculpture sits close to what we now understand design to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than 20 essays and shorter vignettes by curators and scholars range across his furniture and Akari light sculptures, ceramics, stage sets for Martha Graham, public plazas, gardens and playgrounds—including Playscapes, the Atlanta playground he designed in the mid-1970s, a few blocks from the museum. Over 250 archival and contemporary images accompany the texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue to the first Noguchi design retrospective in more than two decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore than 20 essays and vignettes by an international group of scholars and curators\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver 250 archival and contemporary images, many of rarely seen works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributions from Glenn Adamson, Alexandra Lange, Marci Kwon, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Marc Treib, among others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCovers the whole of his design output, from domestic objects to landscapes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Noguchi resisted the label of designer while working across so many design fields\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe making of the Akari lights and their roots in Gifu lantern craft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis furniture and industrial design, and his collaborations with manufacturers and architects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGardens, plazas and playgrounds as public, inclusive sculpture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis ceramics and the place of Japanese craft traditions in his work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Obniski is curator of decorative arts and design at the High Museum of Art, and co-curated the exhibition with Marin R. Sullivan, an independent art historian and curator specialising in sculpture. They are joined by writers including the historian Glenn Adamson, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Alexandra Lange, Stanford art historian Marci Kwon and University of Washington architecture professor Ken Tadashi Oshima.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 248 × 276 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 368\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9780847876198\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Rizzoli Electa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e admirers of Noguchi's lamps and furniture, students of midcentury design and landscape, and anyone interested in where art ends and design begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51422538236129,"sku":"9780847876198","price":240.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/IsamuNoguchi-_Iamnotadesigner.jpg?v=1794360957","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/isamu-noguchi-i-am-not-a-designer","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}