Acknowledgements:

The evolving collection 'Noguchi: The Man Who Entered Stone' most owes its existence to Michael Rothenberg of Bigbridge Press. Without his sustained interest and editorial talent there would be no show to present. Its been a labor of love and I love him back for keeping me at it, especially on those occasions when the project came nearest the trash basket. Thanks Michael. And to all the others who read drafts, encouraged, advised, cajoled, and complained, much obliged.

Art Design:

Original calligraphy design and language research on the 'mu' character for the poem group"The Faces of Mu" was generously undertaken and donated by Eri Takase of Eri Takase Artworks. It is worth mentioning that it was Eri's renderings of 'mu' that inspired the poems in that group and not the other way around.

Artwork (imaging, texturizing, coloring, etc) of the Takase 'mu set' was done by Red Slider.

All other site layout, design and artistic treatments were done by Red Slider.

Photo Credits:

Principle sources for sculpture photos were:

Noguchi: A Sculptor's World, Isamu Noguchi, Harper & Row, 1968, (out of print). NASW

Noguchi East And West, Dore Ashton, Knopf, 1962. NEA

The Noguchi Garden Museum, website: www.noguchi.org; The Noguchi Foundation, NY; Sadao Shoji, Director. NGM

The Selected Writing of Yone Noguchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani, ed.; Assoc. Univ. Presses, 1992. YNW

Isamu Noguchi/Essays and Conversations, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Bruce Altshuler, eds.; Harry Abrams, 1994. E&C


     Partial source list of Images used in the current presentation:
Title year SourcePhotographer
Sculpture to be seen from mars 1948NGM  
Tortured Earth 1943NASW Soichi Sunami, NY
Contoured Playground 1941NASW  
Red Cube1968 NGM-
Avatar (biomorph) 1947NASW Rudolph Burckhardt, NY
Kouros (biomorph) 1945NASW  
Drawing [wild child] 1943NASW  
Mu [MMA]1952-58 NASW-
Death1934 NASWBernice Abbott, NY
Birth1934 NASW-
Centipede1952 NASWSoichi Sunami, NY
Big Boy [cover banner] 1952NASW Peter A. Juley & Son, NY
Momotaro1978 NGM-
Sphere Section 1923NASW  
Camp Poston blueprints 1942NASW  
Musical Weather Vane 1933NASW  
Monument to the Plow 1933NASW  
Myo1956 NASW -
Variations on a Milstone 1962NASW  
Black Sun1960-1963 NASW-
Portrait of Noguchi 1924NEW  
Portrait of Isamu 1970NEW Evelyn Hofer
Portrait of Noguchi  E&C  
California Scenario 1982NGM  
California Scenario 1982South Coast Plaza  

note: due to the large number and variety of source images, a very few sources remain unidentified. If you see an image which has not been credited in this list and can identify the source, please let the Big Bridge editor or the author know so that we may secure proper permissions for all works used. To all the photographers, publishers and others who generously donated source materials, our very sincere appreciation for the use of your work.



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