Isamu Noguchi, sculptor, painter, landscape architect and designer, is a renowned 20th century artist. His fascination with exploring possible points of intersection between sculpture, public space and play has been the main driving force behind his work.
This book is the first compilation of the artist’s 50 years of research on playgrounds. Throughout its pages we can appreciate Noguchi’s remarkable contribution to the visual arts and to education, involving us in the analysis of these marvellous aesthetic, playful and recreational spaces that are playgrounds, praised by this artist, American and Japanese, but above all “internationalist”, as he liked to define himself.
In addition to including models, sketches and photographs of Noguchi’s iconic designs for play, scenography and dance, the book, which serves as a catalogue for the exhibition dedicated to the artist by the Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, includes interesting monographs by leading researchers.
