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Nov. 28, 1954

10 X  +  ART  THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER

ORIENTAL 'INVASION'

Shows by Eight Artists Highlight the Week
By HOWARD DEVREE

Modern Adaptation

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American born Isamu Noguchi, whose youth was spent in Japan, is a law unto himself. In the last few years he has worked with native earths of Japan as his ceramic sculpture at the Stable Gallery testifies. Here are figures which seem to relate to Pre-Columbian American or to oceanic art; abstractions which would not seem strange among contemporary American work; "Mr. Atom," a dour comment on our times; highly entertaining items such as the indifferent reclining figure, "Bachelor," or the delicately ponderous "Elephant" and touching fantasy such as "Child's Dream" with its kite-like overhanging form. 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. 

CONTEMPORARY ART BY ORIENTALS IN NEW YORK 
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"Apartment," by Isamu Noguchi, in his sculpture show at The Stable.