Book cover of 'Noguchi's Gardens Landscape as Sculpture' by Marc Treib with a black and white photograph of a landscape. An open book spread showing a right-hand page with a photograph of a black bowl of green matcha tea and a small wrapped food item on a bright red square, alongside a left-hand page with text and two small photos. A page spread from a book featuring Japanese garden photography and text. The pages include black-and-white and color images of stone paths, mossy stepping stones, and garden scenery, arranged on a white background with small caption text. A page from an architectural book, featuring photographs of a concrete structure and a plaza with children walking. The left side includes a black-and-white photo, a larger twilight photo, a small black-and-white detail shot, and text. A catalog-style spread showing four outdoor playground equipment photos on a white page layout. The images include blue angular metal structures, green and blue block forms, a red climbing frame with a child using it, and an orange triangular metal structure on a playground.
Book cover of 'Noguchi's Gardens Landscape as Sculpture' by Marc Treib with a black and white photograph of a landscape.
An open book spread showing a right-hand page with a photograph of a black bowl of green matcha tea and a small wrapped food item on a bright red square, alongside a left-hand page with text and two small photos.
A page spread from a book featuring Japanese garden photography and text. The pages include black-and-white and color images of stone paths, mossy stepping stones, and garden scenery, arranged on a white background with small caption text.
A page from an architectural book, featuring photographs of a concrete structure and a plaza with children walking. The left side includes a black-and-white photo, a larger twilight photo, a small black-and-white detail shot, and text.
A catalog-style spread showing four outdoor playground equipment photos on a white page layout. The images include blue angular metal structures, green and blue block forms, a red climbing frame with a child using it, and an orange triangular metal structure on a playground.

Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture

$70

While sculpture remained central to his artistic practice, Isamu Noguchi’s (1904–1988) interests and production spanned an exceptionally broad terrain that included furniture and lamps, stage sets for dance, plazas, courtyards—and gardens. Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and the so-called fine arts: in his view all of these could all be considered art should their aesthetic qualities sufficiently transcend those generated by the simple address of need.

Although his gardens include several of the twentieth century’s most iconic landscape designs and have received almost universal praise, Noguchi nonetheless occupies a place removed from the normal practice of landscape architecture. As an artist he relied more on intuition—bolstered by focused study where required—than on objective analysis, and he shaped his landscapes as sculpture, with space as their primary vehicle. To Noguchi landscape design was a spatial and formal art, and from his earliest environmental projects to the works of his later maturity, he succeeded in conceiving and constructing a series of remarkable places.

In this comprehensive and richly illustrated study of Noguchi's gardens, noted landscape historian Marc Treib describes and critiques projects that date from his early unrealized projects for playgrounds and monuments to a large park in Sapporo, Japan, whose construction was completed only posthumously. The story begins with the discussion of Noguchi sculpture that relate in some way to actual landscapes, then moves to the dance set designs for Martha Graham, finally entering the realm of actual landscapes with his gardens for the Reader's Digest offices in Tokyo and UNESCO House in Paris. Many more projects followed in the United States, Japan, and Israel.

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By: Marc Treib

Hardcover: 304 pages

Language: English

10.24 x 1.1 x 10.24 inches

ISBN: 9781957183992

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