Isamu Noguchi explored what it means to be a global citizen
In his work the Japanese-American artist tried to bring the disparate pieces of himself into contact
THERE ARE many ghosts in Hiroshima. One is the ghost of a sculpture that was never built. A black granite arch was designed to rise above the city’s peace park, recalling the roofs of haniwa, the clay funerary objects of ancient Japan. The form of the arch would continue underground, filling a womb-like cenotaph alongside a granite box containing the names of those killed by America’s atomic bomb.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “A sculptor’s world”
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