The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné: Artwork: Kouros: [204]

204

Kouros

1945

Georgia marble

117 1/8 x 42 1/2 x 25 3/8 in. (297.5 x 108 x 64.5 cm)

Slate base: 1 1/4 x 42 1/8 x 34 in. (3.2 x 107 x 86.4 cm)

Not inscribed

Current Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fletcher Fund, 53.87a-i

Provenance

Current collection, 1953

Published On

November 17 2011

Last Updated On

May 23 2022

Status

published

Related Exhibitions

Related Bibliography

Miller, Dorothy, ed. Fourteen Americans. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946.
Gibbs, Jo. "Fourteen Moderns at the Modern." Review of exhibition, Fourteen Americans at Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Art Digest 20, no. 20 (15 September 1946): 5, 30-31.
Ford, Charles Henri. (1946, Fall). Fourteen Minus One. View, 7(1), 35-37.
Hess, Thomas B. "Isamu Noguchi '46: An Art News Contemporary Contour." Review of exhibition, Fourteen Americans at Museum of Modern Art, New York. ARTnews 45, 7 (September 1946): 34-38, 47-51.
Luce, H. R. (Ed.). (1946, November 11). Speaking of Pictures: Japanese-American Sculptor Shows Off Weird New Works; Noguchi has Odd Versatility. LIFE, 20, No. 21. 12-13, 15.
Hess, Thomas B. "The Whitney Draws Slowly to the Left." ARTnews 45, no. 1 (March 1946): 29, 62.
Noguchi, Isamu. "From the 'Fourteen Americans' catalogue, courtesy Museum of Modern Art." Arts & Architecture 64, no. 2 (February 1947): 20-21.
"Goldwater, Robert in collaboration with Rene d'Harnoncourt. Modern Art in Your Life. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1953."
Maurer, Herrymon. "Noguchi." Fortune (September 1955): 116-121.
Page, Addison Franklin. "Isamu Noguchi: The Evolution of a Style." Art in America 44 (Winter 1956-57): 24, 26, 64, 66.
Kuh, Katherine. "An Interview with Isamu Noguchi." Horizon 11, no. 4 (March 1960): 104– 12.
Seuphor, Michel. The Sculpture of This Century. New York: George Braziller, 1960.
"Art in America--Four Centuries of Painting and Sculpture: A Show Proposed for the New York World's Fair: Catalogue: 20th Century Sculpture." Art in America 50, no. 3 (Fall 1962): 47, 66.
Katharine Kuh. "An Interview with Isamu Noguchi." Horizon 11 (March 1960): 104-112. Reprinted in The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, by Katarine Kuh. New York: Harper and Row, 1962: 171-187.
Licht, Fred. Sculpture 19th and 20th Centuries. A History of Western Sculpture. London: Michael Joseph, 1967.
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. New York and Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, 1968.
Kuh, Katharine. "The Fine Arts: April Belonged to Noguchi." Saturday Review (1 June 1968): 36-39.
Gordon, John. Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Admiral Press, 1968.
Mellow, James R. "The Point of View that Sanctifies." New York Times (5 May 1968), 6-8.
Noguchi, Isamu. "Isamu Noguchi." Art Now: New York 3, no. 1 (1970).
Tobias, Tobi. Isamu Noguchi: The Life of a Sculptor. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Co., 1974.
Anderson, Wayne. American Sculpture in Process: 1930-1970. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975.
Oral, Zeynep. "Çok yönlü heykel ustasi Noguchi'nin eserleri şimdi de Avrupa'da." Sanat Dergisi (March, 1976): 18-21.
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with David R. Godine Publisher, 1976.
Hunter, Sam. Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press, 1978.
Botnick, Diane and Nancy Grove. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980: i-xvii, 1-625
Phillips, Lisa. The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984.
Noguchi, Isamu. "For Yasuda Kan," in Yasuda Kan, exhibition catalogue. Tokyo: Gallery Ueda: Warehouse, 1985, 3.
Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985: i-xx, 1-313.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. "The American Tradition." In Sculpture Since 1945. New York: University Books, 1987: 41-43.
Dudar, Helen. "New York's Metropolitan enters the 20th century with a bang." Smithsonian, May 1987.
Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989: i-xvi, 1-125.
Gomez, Edward M. "The Passing of a Purist." Time, January 16, 1989, 37.
Eidelberg, Martin, ed. Design 1935 - 1965: What Modern Was. New York: Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal and Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
Takahashi, Koji. Isamu Noguchi: Retrospective 1992. Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, 1992.
Winther, Bert. "Isamu Noguchi: Conflicts of Japanese Culture in the Early Postwar Years." PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1993.
Adams, Laurie Schneider. A History of Western Art. Madison, Wisconsin: WCB Brown and Benchmark Publishers, 1994.
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations, edited by Bruce Altshuler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, 1994.
Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
Fineberg, Jonathan David. "New York in the Forties." In Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being, 20-41. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995: 40-41, 382, 69.
Sawin, Martica. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
Steger, Pat. "Out-of-Towners Get in the Christmas Shopping Spirit." San Francisco Chronicle, 4 December 1995.
Kostelanetz, Richard. A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Second Ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000.
Torres, Ana Maria. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 2000.
Harris, Elizabeth Forsyth. "Sculptural Theatre: Isamu Noguchi's Sets for Martha Graham." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2000.
Lyford, Amy. "Noguchi, Sculptural Abstraction, and the Politics of Japanese American Internment." Art Bulletin 85, no. 1 (March, 2003): 137-151.
Fletcher, Valerie J., ed. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
Duus, Masayo. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders. Translated by Peter Duus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Lauria, Jo and Tony Birks. Ruth Duckworth Modernist Sculptor. Exhibition catalogue. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Lund Humphries, in association with Art Options Foundation, 2005.
Doval, Gonzalo ed. Metamorphosis in Clay: Noguchi in Kamakura. Exhibition catalogue. Madrid: Fundacion ICO, 2006.
Cornell, Daniell and Mark Dean Johnson. Asian American Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970. Exhibition catalogue. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in association with University of California Press, 2008.
Carpenter, Kim. "Organic Utilitarianism: The Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi." Sculpture Review 57, no. 1 (Spring, 2008): 30-33.
Isamu Noguchi: Between East and West. Exhibition catalogue. Andros, Greece: Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2010.
Lyford, Amy. Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York: University of California Press, 2013.

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