Conversations with Isamu Noguchi

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This handmade book collects one of Isamu Noguchi’s last and most essential interviews, along with fourteen photographs from The Noguchi Museum Archives.  In 1988, his last year on earth, Noguchi spoke with artist Rhony Alhalel on several occasions in Japan, expressing deep bitterness about the commercialization of art and the desecration of beautiful places and sacred things. Their dialogue is a love letter to Kyoto, and, as Noguchi’s final published interview, it contains some of his parting words. Stating…