AV_CTE_005B_1977_01

26m 34.0s

Gardens and the reduction of scale - creating the sense of space - Versailles - Ryoan-ji - illusionist space. Sculptors deal with the relationship of forms and how they relate to human beings. Classical sculpture - direct relation to life. The confusion of sculpture with art - lost its real function as a depiction of reality. Supernatural scale - the pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge - making the world itself a theater space - relating man to a mythic sense of place. Noguchi’s goal of introducing sculpture back into the world - the role of environment and religion. 1949 grant from the Bollingen Foundation - leisure and the place of sculpture - the sense of universality. Theater and sculpture provide opportunity for catharsis and transformation - contact with mystery - heightening reality. The difference between creating an object and relating objects to an environment - Buckminster Fuller and synergy. Noguchi’s concern with the present - working with environments of today. Earthworks - Christo Vladimirov Javacheff. Creating ritual, imagined ancestry and the church - magic. Memorial to Buddha (438) - circumstances of the design - religious character in Noguchi’s work - Philip A. Hart Plaza, Detroit Michigan (726) - Billy Rose Sculpture Garden (504) - Gardens for UNESCO (428) - Sunken Garden, Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza (514). The early role of Marxism and the idea of human development. Project proposal in Hawa’i - Sofu Teshigahara - Kenzo Tange - Heaven (759)

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