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A 7 page paper which analyzes and compares two sculptures, Kouros by Noguchi and Three Men Walking by Giacometti. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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his Japanese-American heritage. Although he was born in the US, and raised in both America and Japan, he did not seem to consider himself as belonging to either. Narang describes
him as a "restless world traveler, obsessive creator [and] meticulous craftsman" (1) and remarks that he was fond of taking risks, both in his personal life and as an artist.
His innovative, cross-cultural style, in which he blends "classical Japanese aesthetics and Modernism" (1) is no doubt due in part to his complicated personal identity and life experience. He was,
as Narang states, always ready to push the boundaries of artistic form: one of his early works, a stage set designed in 1935, consisted only of "a rope, nothing else
. . its not the rope that is the sculpture, but it is the space which it creates that is the sculpture" (Noguchi, as cited in Duus, 2004, no page
available). Lyford (2003) states that Noguchis work incorporated European, Pacific and American influences, and adds that the time which Noguchi spent as
an internee during World War II was instrumental in his exploration of the interaction between race and identity as expressed in modern western art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009)
notes that Noguchis Kouros was created shortly after his release from the internment camp, and quotes him as saying that the construction incorporates a "balance of forces as precise and
precarious as life . . its like life, you can lose it at any moment" (Noguchi, as cited in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 203).
The Museum also points out that Noguchi rejected the popular use of industrial sculptural materials which was prevalent in the mid-20th century, preferring instead
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