Uno Jinmatsu: The Mystery And Spirit Of Primitive Art
His first exhibition was made in 1929 in New York. In 1938 he won the national contest to decorate the Associated Press Agency pavilion at Rockefeller Center in New York with a huge stainless steel sculpture, a work that consecrated him as an important sculptor. During World War II, he voluntarily entered a Californian camp for US citizens of Japanese origin.
In his earliest works of terracotta and stone, Noguchi embodied a part of the mystery and spirit of primitive art, mainly Japanese clay works, which he studied and learned with the Japanese potter Uno Jinmatsu during a trip to Japan made between 1930 And 1931. Noguchi, a graduate in medicine at Columbia University, intuited the interrelation between bones and rocks, worrying about what
In his earliest works of terracotta and stone, Noguchi embodied a part of the mystery and spirit of primitive art, mainly Japanese clay works, which he studied and learned with the Japanese potter Uno Jinmatsu during a trip to Japan made between 1930 And 1931. Noguchi, a graduate in medicine at Columbia University, intuited the interrelation between bones and rocks, worrying about what