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NOGUCHI 2

"... He has successfully avoided all those pitfalls of kitsch which entrap most persons who aspire to achieve a meeting of East and West.  His art is personal, international, powerful, and very modern.  It is tense, spare, daring and often humorous.  His animal caricatures belong with Toba Sojo's agile rabbits....He can make baked clay look as hard as sheets of bent iron and as durable.  His rock slabs rival Egypt and Mexican grinding stones......"

"The Nation", January 15, 1955

"American born Isamu Noguchi whose youth was spent in Japan is a law unto himself.  In the last few years he has worked with the native earths of Japan as his ceramic sculptures at the Stable testifies...A highly personal fancy is at work here.  He has fused cultures-ancient East and primitive art and modern abstract representation by simplification and suggestion into an individual vehicle of expression..."

Howard Devree, "The New York Times", Nov 28, 1954