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Miss Expanding Universe, 1932
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Isamu Noguchi |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1932 |
| Description | Made of lightweight aluminum, Miss Expanding Universe resulted from the intellectual and romantic partnership between modernist sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Chicago dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. In 1932 Page per- formed an avant-garde dance, Expanding Universe, wearing a futuristic jersey sack designed by Noguchi; only her head and feet emerged from its stretchy, cocooning shape, a constraint evoked by the sculpture's abstract form. Noguchi here combined machine-age streamlining with the austere characteristics of ancient Japanese funerary objects (haniwa). Born in the United States, he lived in Japan until he was thirteen years old, and later extensively studied the country's sculptural traditions and ceramics. [A work made of aluminum.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © 2018 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Sculpture Modern And Contemporary Art Artworks Contemporary Art |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
| Object Type | Sculpture |
