I Become a Nisei - Fourth Printing

$65.00 at The Noguchi Museum.

I Become a Nisei collects a 1942 essay by Isamu Noguchi written from a prison camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. The book includes sixteen color plates of artworks and related correspondence from The Noguchi Museum Archives. Though exempt as a New York resident from the forced relocation program authorized by Executive Order 9066, Isamu Noguchi voluntarily entered the Poston War Relocation Center, Arizona, in May 1942 with ambitious plans to design gardens, recreation areas, and arts programs…