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“Second Sundays” Program: Talk by Writer/Historian Paul French

For The Noguchi Museum’s “Second Sundays” program in October, writer and historian Paul French will deliver a talk entitled Peking 1930: Isamu Noguchi and his Encounter with China’s Cultural Capital and Avant-Garde Milieu. Author of the true-crime thriller and international bestseller Midnight in Peking (Penguin, 2011) and The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking (Penguin 2013), French will consider Peking in 1930—the city and its people—and their effect on Isamu Noguchi and his artistic development.

This talk has been organized in conjunction with the Museum’s special exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930, on view at the Museum September 25, 2013 through January 26, 2014. The exhibition of drawings, ink paintings, calligraphic work and sculpture explores the relationship between the two artists established when, in 1930, at the age of twenty-six, Noguchi stopped in Beijing en route to Japan. While Noguchi’s time with Qi Baishi is the focus of the exhibition, the influence of the city of Peking itself, Noguchi’s exposure to its intellectuals and sojourners from Europe, America, and Japan was highly influential on his emergent Modernist outlook and later work.











When: Sun., Oct. 13, 2013 at 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Rd.
718-204-7088
Price: Free with museum admission
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For The Noguchi Museum’s “Second Sundays” program in October, writer and historian Paul French will deliver a talk entitled Peking 1930: Isamu Noguchi and his Encounter with China’s Cultural Capital and Avant-Garde Milieu. Author of the true-crime thriller and international bestseller Midnight in Peking (Penguin, 2011) and The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking (Penguin 2013), French will consider Peking in 1930—the city and its people—and their effect on Isamu Noguchi and his artistic development.

This talk has been organized in conjunction with the Museum’s special exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930, on view at the Museum September 25, 2013 through January 26, 2014. The exhibition of drawings, ink paintings, calligraphic work and sculpture explores the relationship between the two artists established when, in 1930, at the age of twenty-six, Noguchi stopped in Beijing en route to Japan. While Noguchi’s time with Qi Baishi is the focus of the exhibition, the influence of the city of Peking itself, Noguchi’s exposure to its intellectuals and sojourners from Europe, America, and Japan was highly influential on his emergent Modernist outlook and later work.

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