AV_CTE_004G_1986_01

1h 1m 41.0s

Content starts at 06:19. Noguchi in Japan, 1931 - arriving in Kyoto - Noguchi’s return in 1950. Onorio Ruotolo working to establish Noguchi’s reputation as a sculptor when he was 19. Noguchi appearing in the Italian press - Italian community in New York. Interviews in the Japan Times. Yonejiro Noguchi reaching out to Isamu after the war. Correspondences between Rabindranath Tagore and Yonejiro Noguchi. Kenzo Tange’s marriage - Arata Isozaki. Ambiguous relation between national character and style - cross-border interactions - discussion of Japanese automobile industry as example of international exchange - what can be considered Japanese. Color symbolism - women in war. Discussion turns to Poston - distrust among the Nisei towards Noguchi - differences between first and second generation Japanese-Americans. Noguchi’s sense of betrayal by liberals and communists who supported the internments - support found amongst the Quakers. Strength of the labor movement before World War II - Henry Wallace presidential campaign. American support for the Spanish Civil War - anti-Japanese sentiment in the 1930s. Working with Norman Bel Geddes before the war, building models of Pacific Islands for Life Magazine. Yoshiko Yamaguchi - marriage - her political career. Ronald Reagan - early acting career. Communism in the 1930s - working in Mexico on History Mexico (146) - group attraction - idealism - internationalism. Subversion and art - artistic identity - Noguchi in New York and Paris. Constantin Brancusi - Alexander Calder - Jules Pascin giving Noguchi letters of introduction to Ezra Pound, Tsuguhara Fujita Guggenheim fellowship in 1927-1928 - postponing trip to India and going to England instead. Noguchi’s studio in Paris - planning his trip to Japan - attempt to gain Russian visa to take transcontinental railroad - Armand Hammer - visiting Moscow. Going to Peking through to Japan - pre-war atmosphere in Kyoto. Noguchi’s arrival in Japan written up in the Asahi Shimbun - meeting Hiram Bingham.

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