Isamu Noguchi and the Creation of a "Universal" Landscape

dc.contributor.advisor	Mansbach, Steven	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Merritt, Rebecca	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Art History and Archaeology	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-02-17T07:04:39Z
dc.date.available	2012-02-17T07:04:39Z
dc.date.issued	2011	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The creation of landscapes allowed Isamu Noguchi to look beyond sculpture to an environment where stone, architecture, and landscaping met. This enabled him to think about what he wanted to accomplish as an artist, and by the end of his career landscapes became the aesthetic means to reconcile his "divided self." He was an artist who had obtained commercial and artistic success at an early age, yet he had to deal with the deeply imbedded psychological challenge of his longing to belong. This apparent discrepancy in his life led Noguchi to create landscapes where he could psychologically belong by making them "universal." In this paper I explore Noguchi's struggle in defining his cultural identity, and I examine six gardens created by Noguchi, each coming closer to his wish for a "universal" landscape; an enclosed utopia separated from the chaos of the urban world and cultural definitions.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/12352
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Art history	en_US
dc.title	Isamu Noguchi and the Creation of a "Universal" Landscape	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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