{"product_id":"changing-and-unchanging-things-9780520298224","title":"Changing and Unchanging Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (190488) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and societyhaving emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his work toward some purposeful social end. The artist Saburo Hasegawa (190657) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period, making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930s, was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity. By the time Hasegawa and Noguchi met, both had been thinking deeply about the balance between tradition and modernity, and indigenous and foreign influences, in the development of traditional cultures for some time. The predicate of their intense friendship was a thorough exploration of traditional Japanese culture within the context of seeking what Noguchi termed an innocent synthesis that must rise from the embers of the past. Changing and Unchanging Things is an account of how their joint exploration of traditional Japanese culture influenced their contemporary and subsequent work. The 40 masterpieces in the exhibitionby turns elegiac, assured, ambivalent, anguished, euphoric, and resignedare organized into the major overlapping subjects of their attention: the landscapes of Japan, the abstracted human figure, the fragmentation of matter in the atomic age, and Japan's traditional art forms.     Published in association with The Noguchi Museum.     Exhibition dates: Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan: January 12March 21, 2019 The Noguchi Museum, New York: May 1July 14, 2019 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: September 27December 8, 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will undoubtedly be an important reference for future studies on Hasegawa, Noguchi, and postwar art by Japanologists and non-Japanologists alike.\" * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD JENNY DIXON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan DAKIN HART AND MARK DEAN JOHNSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ONE Modernist Passions for “Old Japan:” Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi in 1950 BERT WINTHER-TAMAKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TWO “Accumulated Impressions”: A Photographic Travelogue of Noguchi and Hasegawa in Japan MATTHEW KIRSCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THREE Regretting the Future: Noguchi, and Hasegawa Consider the Direction of Postwar Japanese Art KOICHI KAWASAKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FOUR Isamu Noguchi’s Memorial to the Dead of Hiroshima: The Monument that Never Was and an Artistic Vision Shared with Saburo Hasegawa NAOAKI NAKAMURA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FIVE Saburo Hasegawa in America: A Wide Open Road MARK DEAN JOHNSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SIX True Development of an Old Tradition: Isamu Noguchi’s Work in the 1950s DAKIN HART\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SEVEN Toward Abstraction: Saburo Hasegawa’s Exploration of the Photogram YASUFUMI NAKAMORI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PLATES Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PRIMARY SOURCES Remembrance of Saburo Hasegawa ISAMU NOGUCHI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Noguchi in Japan SABURO HASEGAWA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHRONOLOGY Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: 1904–April 1959 MATTHEW KIRSCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Japanese Translations\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Photography credits","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402901627223,"sku":"9780520298224","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520298224.jpg?v=1730481815","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/changing-and-unchanging-things-9780520298224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}