AV_CTE_004C_1986_01

1h 3m 23.0s

Various discussions of family documents and who may hold additional sources of material - Ikuko Atsumi - Mrs. Araki (?) may have information about Noguchi’s childhood - Frank Putnam’s daughter gave Noguchi some of Leonie Gilmour’s documents - Ailes Gilmour. Noguchi’s interest in compiling material. Noguchi’s 1931 trip to Asia - Yone Noguchi urging Isamu not to come under his own name - staying in Peking - Totaro Takagi. Post-World War II trip to Japan - Bollingen Foundation - Michio Noguchi. Isamu’s relationship with uncles and extended family in Japan. Procedural discussion of transcripts, payments, recording of interview, Noguchi’s working schedule. Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York - Venice Biennale. Cairo Museum - Ancient and modern Egypt. Japanese translation of Sam Hunter book. Befriending Dr. Edward A. Rumely - founding the Interlaken School - Rumely’s political direction. Dr. Hideo Noguchi - working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - meeting Dr. Hideo Noguchi’s daughter in Peking. Introduction to Onorio Ruotolo - influence on Noguchi’s decision to become an artist - Ruotolo’s interest in spiritualism. Learning carpentry as a child in Chigasaki - Leonie Gilmour homeschooling in Japan. First artwork - sculpting a wave, glazed in blue and white - children’s visions and development. Noguchi’s birth in Los Angeles. Artforum - writing and contributors - Charles Cowles - Ingrid Sischy - Art in America. Kazue and Isamu negotiate the structure of the interview - playing the ‘Art game’ - funding contemporary artwork - tension between public and private. Modern information communities and computer culture in Japan. Receiving the Kyoto Prize in Arts from the Inamori Foundation in Japan after the Venice Biennale. National Medal of Arts from Ronald Reagan. Akari in the Venice Biennale - Slide Mantra - Japanese contemporary art.

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