| Jenny Dixon, director, The Noguchi Museum, has announced that the second installment of The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné will be posted online on November 17, 2012, the 108th anniversary of the artist's birth. An ongoing digital publication, the catalogue raisonné presents comprehensive information on all categories of Noguchi's practice, encompassing sculptures, drawings, models, architectural spaces, stage sets, and manufactured designs, as well as a chronology, bibliography, and list of exhibitions.
Ms. Dixon states, "The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, a longtime project, is an enormous achievement, one for which the Museum owes a debt of gratitude for the crucial support of Tsuneko and Shoji Sadao. The Sadaos have played a critical role at the Museum from the very beginning, and their generosity has now
enabled work on the catalogue raisonné to continue for the foreseeable future."
Digital publication of the catalogue will not only make it more accessible to the public than a traditional book would be, but will also enable the Museum to post partial entries on artworks, exhibitions, and literature, identifying them as "research pending," thereby providing scholars and the public with available information while research continues. In addition to the many other benefits of digital technology, such as searching, linking, zooming in on images, and so on, users of the catalogue raisonné will be able to make use of such personalized tools as bookmarking and, ultimately, creating slide shows and saving searches.
The first installment of catalogue raisonné, which was posted on November 17, 2011, includes complete entries for more than 300 artworks and partial entries for more than 1,000 others for which research is in progress. The second chapter will include newly completed research on artworks from Noguchi's estate, as well as completed research on works from private collections; checklists for key solo exhibitions from 1930 to 1970; hundreds of new images of artworks and exhibitions; and more than 500 entries for artworks for which research is forthcoming, including a major selection of Noguchi's drawings.
Upon its completion in 2018, the publication—for which Shaina D. Larrivee is project manager—will comprise complete entries on over 4,000 artworks, in addition to exhibitions and publications. It will be the first comprehensive record of the life and work of Noguchi, updating and considerably expanding upon the 1980 catalogue of sculpture by Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick (Garland). It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, arts professionals, and collectors of Noguchi's work.
Access to the publication—one of the first catalogues raisonné to be published digitally—is free of charge. It is accessible at http://catal
ogue.noguchi.org.
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