Main entry:

Greene, Alison de Lima.

Title & Author:

Isamu Noguchi : a sculpture for sculpture : the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden / Alison de Lima ; with essays by Valerie J. Fletcher and Marc Treib.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2008.

Description:

168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden: Past, Present, and Future / Peter C. Marzio -- Harmony at Last: Isamu Noguchi's Design for the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden / Valerie J. Fletcher -- Advent of Modernism Surrealism and Biomorphism Construction in Space New Forms / Alison de Lima Greene -- Sculpture for Sculpture / Marc Treib -- Conservation in the Garden / Wynne H. Phelan and Bob Pringle -- Keeper of the Garden / Jennifer McStay and Johnny Steele -- Garden History / Michelle White.

Summary:

"This year marks the Cullen Sculpture Garden's twentieth anniversary, and this book commemorates the event with two essays by leading, experts on Isamu Noguchi and landscape architecture that illuminate the history of the garden and its creator, as well as new scholarly catalogue entries on all 23 of the sculptures featured within this remarkable one-acre site. The book also includes interviews about the roles of conservation and horticulture in the garden's evolution, and an illustrated time line of the garden's fascinating past."--Jacket

ISBN:

9780300138917 (hbk.)
0300138911 (hbk.)

Subject:

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden.
Sculpture gardens Texas Houston.
Art museums Landscape architecture Texas Houston.
Jardins de sculptures Texas Houston.
Sculpture gardens
Texas Houston

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256218
Call No.: BIB 186539
Status: Available