Studio: international art (82.1921)

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HEAD OF YONE NOGUCHI
BY ALFEO F A G GI

NEW YORK.—Alfeo Faggi, whose
head of Yone Noguchi, the Japanese
writer, is here reproduced, is an Italian
who left his native country some eight
years ago after an art training of the usual
conventional kind and settled in Chicago,
where he has felt more freedom in following
his inner impulses than he did in Italy.
His artistic origins are to be traced to a
period far beyond the near past—to the
tradition of the thirteenth century and its
great master Niccolo Pisano, and he
acknowledges no other teaching. The
most important works he has executed in
America, a Pietd and Mother and Child,
evince this primitivism most clearly, but

it is evident also in his single figures like
that of St, Francis, in his bust of Rabin-
dranath Tagore, and this head of Yone
Noguchi, in which, without sacrificing
likeness, he has expressed those aspects
which transcend external form, a 0

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Hiroshige. By Yone Noguchi. (New
York: Orientalia; London : Elkin
Mathews.)—In this essay of some thirty
pages Mr. Noguchi, who from his early
days has been an earnest student of our
language, employs it effectively in giving

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