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Artwork · Isamu Noguchi · 1950–1951 · sculpture · Keio University

The first major commission in Japan of Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988): a visualization of the Zen concept of “nothingness”, a frequent subject of zenga — but where the Zen masters wrote the character, Noguchi created an abstract, biomorphic image of the concept itself. 1 Mason 2005, p. 361, fig. 426. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.