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Work (Mask) by Isamu Noguchi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2023
Title: Work (Mask)
Artist: Isamu Noguchi 野口勇 (American, Los Angeles, California 1904–1988 New York)
Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
Date: 1952
Culture: Japan, Imbe
Medium: Unglazed Bizen stoneware
Dimensions: H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm): W. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm); D. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021
Accession Number: 2021.401
In 1952, Noguchi was given access to Kitaōji Rosanjin’s kilns in Kamakura to experiment with ceramics and also visited Inbe, an area famous for Bizen ware, to study wood-firing methods. While working in the studio of Kaneshige Tōyō, the first Living National Treasure of Bizen ceramics, he created a plaster mold of an abstract “mask.” Most likely a self-portrait, Work (Mask) depicts a figure with a concentrated expression clenching a cigarette stub in its teeth. Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures provided Noguchi with a modernist context, but he found inspiration in Kofun-period Haniwa figures, ancient funerary objects that were hand-built and unglazed. His 1952 solo exhibition in Kamakura of groundbreaking ceramic sculptures had a powerful impact on progressive younger potters, such as the Sōdeisha members.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853819
Artist: Isamu Noguchi 野口勇 (American, Los Angeles, California 1904–1988 New York)
Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
Date: 1952
Culture: Japan, Imbe
Medium: Unglazed Bizen stoneware
Dimensions: H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm): W. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm); D. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021
Accession Number: 2021.401
In 1952, Noguchi was given access to Kitaōji Rosanjin’s kilns in Kamakura to experiment with ceramics and also visited Inbe, an area famous for Bizen ware, to study wood-firing methods. While working in the studio of Kaneshige Tōyō, the first Living National Treasure of Bizen ceramics, he created a plaster mold of an abstract “mask.” Most likely a self-portrait, Work (Mask) depicts a figure with a concentrated expression clenching a cigarette stub in its teeth. Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures provided Noguchi with a modernist context, but he found inspiration in Kofun-period Haniwa figures, ancient funerary objects that were hand-built and unglazed. His 1952 solo exhibition in Kamakura of groundbreaking ceramic sculptures had a powerful impact on progressive younger potters, such as the Sōdeisha members.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853819
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