Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture: The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

by Alison de Lima Greene

Valerie J. Fletcher and Marc Treib

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Created by the renowned modernist artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), the Cullen Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has grown into one of the most important sculpture parks in America. For the past two decades the garden - with its angled concrete walls, sloping green lawns, and burgeoning trees and shrubs - has offered a perfect setting to feature sculptures from the museum's outstanding collection and for masterworks on loan.This handsome book maps the sense of discovery and rediscovery that the Cullen Sculpture Garden instills in every visitor. Two essays by leading experts on Noguchi and landscape architecture illuminate the history of the garden and its creator, and the scholarly catalogue entries shed light on all twenty-three of the sculptures exhibited within this remarkable one-acre site.
  • ISBN10 0300138911
  • ISBN13 9780300138917
  • Publish Date 13 March 2008 (first published 1 January 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 May 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Language English