The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders »

Masayo Duus, a prize-winning author in Japan, has lived in the United States since 1964 and has written widely on the history of Japanese Americans. Among her other works translated into English are "Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific, Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd," and "The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920". Peter Duus is Emeritus Professor of History at Stanford University. His most recent book is "The Japanese Discovery of America".

"This biography is a significant contribution to the literature on the life of Isamu Noguchi. With its presentation of many previously unknown biographical details, it will be a useful source for scholars working on Noguchi as well as for the general reader."--Bruce Altshuler, director of the Program in Museum Studies at New York University and former director of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

Amy Lyford - Art Journal

Masayo Duss's recent biography of the artist is a refreshing change of pace. Duus highlights the diversity of Noguchi's life and artistic experience while refraining, for the most part, from pigeonholing him as an artist whose work reflects an essentially Japanese aesthetic. . . . [S]he seems to think . . . that Noguchi's unwavering commitment to artistic experimentation and a diversity of viewpoints and his unwillingness to be pinned down as an artist are what make his work and his life so compelling.

Prologue 6

Chapter One: Yone and Leonie 11
Chapter Two: His Mother's Child 33
Chapter Three: All-American Boy 77
Chapter Four: Journey of Self-Discovery 111
Chapter Five: Becoming a Nisei 149
Chapter Six: The Song of a Small 177
Chapter Seven: Honeymoon with Japan 205
Chapter Eight: The World of Dreams 239
Chapter Nine: The Universe in a Garden 273
Chapter Ten: Encounter with a Stonecutter 311
Chapter Eleven: Farewell to s Dreamer 349

Epilogue 390
Notes 397
Bibliography 420
Acknowledgments 428
Index 430
Photgraphy Credits 439