Artist field note

Isamu Noguchi

Sculpture mediates between body, landscape and design.

Appears inSculpture
Death (Lynched Figure) by Isamu Noguchi
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Death (Lynched Figure)

1934

A contorted hanging body confronts American racial terror with exceptional directness.

The five in one idea

Noguchi dissolved boundaries between sculpture, furniture, garden and the spaces of everyday life.