Relating to Nation, Relating to Earth: The Ceramics of Isamu Noguchi in Return to Earth

Presented September 21, 2013 at the Nasher Sculpture Center. ’Isamu Noguchi Ceramics: A Kind of Antisculpture’ - Catherine Craft, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions, Nasher Sculpture Center Catherine Craft discusses the development of American-born artist Isamu Noguchi’s experiments with clay as he explored his Japanese heritage through craft and tradition. His travel to Japan after World War Two and employ with a Kyoto-based potter, provided a foil to his academic training and experie