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The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Entryway art, "News" by Isamu Noguchi. Originally the Associated Press building, now Bank of America, opening into Rockefeller Plaza
In Rockefeller Center's Channel Gardens, a jointly sponsored installation by PaceWildenstein and the Noguchi Museum presents Isamu Noguchi's Thunder Rock. The mammoth stone sculpture stands seven feet high and wide.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for MArtha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi's work around New York includes the Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza and Red Cube in Helmsley Plaza and News at the Associated Press Building
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Artist:
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988, sculptor.
Title:
Night Land, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Night Voyage, (sculpture).
Dates:
1947.
Medium:
York Fossil marble.
Dimensions:
14 x 45 x 35 in.
Subject:
Allegory -- Time -- Night
Object Type:
Sculpture
Owner:
Falxa, Madelon Maremont,
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Maremont, Arnold,
References:
Grove, Nancy & Diane Botnick, "The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979," New York: Garland Pub., 1980, no. 260.
Illustration:
Grove, Nancy & Diane Botnick, "The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979," New York: Garland Pub., 1980, plate 260.
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Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain; Hart Plaza - Detroit, MI
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Phylon by Isamu Noguchi
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Isamu Noguchi's "Black Sun" was carved in Japan in 1969 from a single block of Swedish black granite.
The sculpture is placed prominently on a hill in Seattle's Volunteer Park across from the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Noguchi considered this to be his image of the sun facing westward toward the Pacific and Asia.
Another piece executed in white marble entitled "White Sun" is located in the sculpture court of the Beineke Rare Book Library at Yale University suggests his view across the Atlantic toward Western European Classical civilization.
Noguchi's mother Léonie Gilmour was Scots-Irish in origin. His father Yone Noguchi was a famous Japanese poet. They met in the US in 1901 where she worked to help him translate his poetry into English. Isamu was born Los Angeles in 1904 after his father had permanently returned to Japan.
Yellow Landscape, 1943. Magnesite, wood, string, metal fishing weight (1904-1988) Noguchi Foundation. BAM
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Bolt of Lightning . . . A Memorial to Benjamin Franklin - Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Conceived 1933; installed 1984.
Monument Plaza, Base of Benjamin Franklin Bridge, near 6th and Vine Streets
At the Fairmount Park Art Association's first Sculpture International exhibition in 1933, Isamu Noguchi exhibited eight sculptures and a number of drawings, including a design for a monument to Benjamin Franklin in Fairmount Park. The idea lay dormant for nearly half a century, until in 1979 the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented a retrospective exhibition of Noguchi's work. A reproduction of the 1933 proposal caught the attention of the trustees of the Fairmount Park Art Association, and the project was reborn. With financial help from the estate of George D. Widener, the Art Association commissioned the sculpture as a civic gift in celebration of Philadelphia's tricentennial. Noguchi himself selected the site, Monument Plaza, between the bridge and the square named after Franklin.
For assistance with technical details, Noguchi consulted his friend Paul Weidlinger of Weidlinger Associates, a New York engineering firm. Though Weidlinger's usual responsibilities involved bridges and skyscrapers, he had also worked on large-scale sculptures with such artists as Picasso and Dubuffet. Computer analyses were used to determine how the asymmetrical sculpture could withstand the force of gravity.
The 58-ton Bolt of Lightning refers to the famous experiment in which Franklin flew a kite in an electrical storm. A four-legged painted-steel base supports an image of the key that Franklin attached to the kite. On top of the key is the lightning bolt, a 45-foot truss clad with multifaceted stainless steel plates. From the bolt emerges a 23-foot tubular steel structure with a representation of the kite—all balanced by the tension of four steel guy cables. The cables appeared in Noguchi's 1933 drawings, symbolizing, he said, the eternal and essential contact between air and earth. Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz created the dramatic lighting.
From the Fairmount Park Art Association web site, adapted in turn from Public Art in Philadelphia by Penny Balkin Bach (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1992).
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
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The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
This was a poignant moment for me personally, that brought the designer close, to see his carved initials at the base of the Lima Bean Pile. It got a little dusty at the plaza at this point.
Beautiful, high quality tensegrity at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island city. The show is small but exquisite and shows many artefacts that connect Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.
The Noguchi Playscape, located near the 12th Street Gate in Piedmont Park, was designed in 1976 by world-renowned artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, at part of the “Art in the Park” project for the Atlanta Bicentennial under the aegis of the High Museum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Playscapes is the only Noguchi-designed playground completed in his lifetime. Noguchi playgrounds are aspects of what he called "the sculpture of spaces", intended to make sculpture a useful part of everyday life.
Piedmont Park is a 189-acre municipal park located between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. The land was originally owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who sold it in 1887 to the Gentleman's Driving Club, later renamed the Piedmont Driving Club, who let the Piedmont Exposition Company, headed by Charles A. Collier, use it for fairs and expositions. The park was originally designed by Joseph Forsyth Johnson to host the Piedmont Exposition in 1887 and then later, the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. From 1902 to 1904, the park was home to Atlanta's first professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, and in 1903, it played host to the second football game and the beginning of the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" between Auburn University (then named Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) and the University of Georgia. In 1904, the park underwent a redesign called the Olmsted plan, led by the sons of New Frederick Law Olmsted--John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
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Red Cube, 1968 (Isamu Noguchi): 140 Broadway
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The Challenger Memorial, designed by sculptor Isamu Noguchi and designer Buckminster Fuller, was dedicated in the southwest end of Bayfront Park on January 28, 1988. Commemorating the seven astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the 100-foot tall abstract steel sculpture of a spiraling double helix is painted white and stands in a recessed cement triangular base. The words of Michael McClure's poem are inscribed on a nearby plaque: "O, Ivory, cinder, Open Petals, Soar the Space Path, Flesh Spirits Heroes. McAuliffe, Onizuka Jarvis. McNair Smith Resnik Scobee."
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
The bright red painted steel of Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube stands out in strong contrast to the blacks, browns, and whites of the buildings and sidewalks around the sculpture. Located to one side of a small plaza in front of the HSBC (previously the Marine Midland Bank) building on Broadway, Red Cube is surrounded on three sides by skyscrapers, the height of which draw a viewer's eye upwards. The sculpture itself adds to this upward pull, as it balances on one corner, the opposite corner reaching towards the sky. Despite its title, the sculpture is not actually a cube, but instead seems as though it has been stretched along its vertical axis.
Aside from it's striking color, Red Cube also stands out from the surrounding architecture in that all of its lines are diagonals, whereas the buildings are made up of horizontal and vertical lines. Additionally, the sculpture is balanced somewhat precariously on one corner, while the buildings, by contrast, and solidly placed.
Through the center of the cube there is a cylindrical hole, revealing an inner surface of gray with evenly-spaced lines moving from one opening of the hole to the other. Looking through this hole, the viewer's gaze is directed towards the building behind, tying the sculpture and the architecture together.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for MArtha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi's work around New York includes the Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza and News at the Associated Press Building His Thunder Rock was also temporarily on display in Rockefeller Plaza.
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sculpture: History of Mexico.
artist: Isamu Noguchi.
date: 1936.
materials: colored cement over sculpted brick base.
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The Mildred and Claude Pepper Fountain was designed by Isamu Noguchi as part of the redesign of Bayfront Park.
Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public space in Downtwon Florida along Biscayne Bay. Originally constructed in 1924 to the design of Warren Henry Manning, it officially opened in March, 1925. Beginning in 1980, it underwent a major redesign by Japanese-American modernist artist and landscape architect, Isamu Noguchi. Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami.
The Southeast Financial Center, previously known as the the Waschovia Financial Center, at 200 South Biscayne, consists of a 765-foot office tower a 15-story parking garage. When topped-off in August 1983 to the design of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was the tallest building south of New York City and east of the Mississippi River. It remains the tallest office tower in Florida and the second tallest building in Miami.
Last Friday night, Seattle was hit by a freak ice storm. After playing some music a a friend's house I went to Volunteer Park to see if I could find something to fun to take pictures of. It was *freezing cold* and totally deserted...The perfect time to shoot.
This is Isamu Noguchi's "Black Sun" -- the sculpture that inspired Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun track. I'm a Capitol Hill native, and I've always thought of it as "The Donut" but that's just me.
This is a HDR image that I made from three source photos: 8, 15 and 30 seconds at f5/12mm with my 12-24 Tokina lens and trusty D80. I was *an idiot* and forgot to change the ISO back to 100, so all of the stuff I shot that night is at 640 ISO. :( However, Noise Ninja rocks like, um, SoundGarden, and my ass was saved.
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Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The outside is cold and hard stone, but the translucent marble panels give a golden glow to the inside. Absolutely incredible. Its biggest problem is that it's at Yale.
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