Relocated : Twenty Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi from Japan
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POW! Epiphany becomes EUREKAThis review has become of great personal meaning to me because of my studying for the past five years of Noguchi's significant but little known years of schooling in Indiana as a typical teenager. This volume itself is gorgeous, and for me easily the best hard-copy example of publication aesthetics approaching those of Web graphics. Not knowing otherwise, I can only attribute this quality to Bonnie Rychlak and Amy Hau of the Noguchi Museum, as mentioned there. It is transformative to me in comparing to my previous review here in these pages of Thomas Solley's groundbreaking 1970 exhibit at Indiana University of "Noguchi & Rickey & Smith".In comparison there, Noguchi's very similar work is presented in rather drab B&W rather than the vibrant colors of the present. Today we could reproduce the earlier Indiana University catalogue in so-called "glorious technicolor" at little extra cost and less effort on today's timely Web pages. In one fell swoop, the drab obscurity of the earlier could take its rightful and gloriously colorful place with the contemporary.In today's Digital Age, the New York Times front page heralds a new cellphone in colorful blasts, while informing us of the accomplishments of an Arab-American Steven Jobs and an African-American Barack Obama. At this time great images of the grand accomplishments of the world-famed Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi publically schooled in Indiana could be recovered from those dimly lit vaults of yesteryear at our Universities and Museums and made easily accessible anew. --Glenn Ralston