While some imagine that Noguchi would be proud to have his work displayed at the White House under these circumstances, I would bet that he is turning in his grave.
Author Archives: Amy Lyford
Amy Lyford is Professor of Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the author of Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor and Nation, 1930-1950 (University of California Press, 2013) and Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (University of California Press, 2007).