Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan
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In May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (1904&;88) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and society&;having emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his work &;toward some purposeful social end.&; The artist Saburo Hasegawa (1906&;57) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period, making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930s, was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity.