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The snail / by Emily Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2022]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781797204673
  • 179720467X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. But the world was not so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States and raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he turned to his art to shape, hold, and create light-to conquer the darkness without. Poetic and searing, heart-wrenching and exquisite, Emily Hughes's paean to creativity explores emotions ravaged by a history of Japanese incarceration, the effects of personal isolation, and the power of art to heal those wounds"-- Provided by publisher.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography NOGUCHI, I. H893 Available 33111010940746
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. You know his work without even knowing you know: his Akari lamps changed the way modern buildings light their space. But before he was important, he was a kid. This is his story.



Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. The world, however, was not always so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States but raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he conceived of himself as a snail, capable of retreating into his creative shell when the world did not embrace him.



Through his art, the Snail could shape, hold, and create light - to conquer the darkness without. Poetic and searing, heart-wrenching and exquisite, Emily Hughes's paean to creativity explores emotions ravaged by a history of Japanese incarceration, the effects of personal isolation, and the power of art to heal those wounds. nd the power of art to heal those wounds. nd the power of art to heal those wounds. nd the power of art to heal those wounds.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. But the world was not so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States and raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he turned to his art to shape, hold, and create light-to conquer the darkness without. Poetic and searing, heart-wrenching and exquisite, Emily Hughes's paean to creativity explores emotions ravaged by a history of Japanese incarceration, the effects of personal isolation, and the power of art to heal those wounds"-- Provided by publisher.

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