Best known for his stone and bronze sculptures, Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was an American sculptor and designer who lived through an intense conflict of cultural identity.
Born in Los Angeles to American writer Leoni Gilmour and Japanese poet Yone Noguchi, Isamu spent his childhood in Japan and his adolescence in Indiana, in the U.S. interior.
Born in Los Angeles, California, he moved to Japan with his mother while still very young, where his father lived, and spent his entire childhood there.
In 1918, he returned to the United States to study and graduated from La Porte High School, Indiana, in 1922.
While studying medicine at Columbia University, he took sculpture classes at night,...
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