Isamu Noguchi interviewed by Nancy Grove. Part 1 of 2.
August 21 1987
Identifier
AV_CTE_054_1987_01
Duration
47m 20.0s
Description
Noguchi discusses his views on critics and art criticism, the New York School, and the New York art world of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Noguchi’s relationship to art critics was influenced by Henry McBride’s negative review of Noguchi’s 1935 Marie Harriman Gallery exhibition. Also discussed are Clement Greenberg, Thomas Hess, John Martin, and Dore Ashton. Noguchi reflects on the contemporary status of New York School artists such as Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock – discussion of period when Noguchi was working in his studio at 33 MacDougal Alley. Noguchi’s relationship with Arshile Gorky – Gorky’s art and education. Early exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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