"With my double nationality and double upbringing, where was my home"" wrote sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi in his autobiographical A Sculptor's World. "Where my affections? Where my identity? Japan or America, either, both--or the world"" While this internal battle made Noguchi feel marginalized--at home nowhere and everywhere in the world--it also helped shape his work, turning him into the "modern art world's sculptural patriarch" at the time of his death in 1988, according to William Wilson, writing in the Los Angeles Times. In his sculpture and his design of gardens and public spaces, Noguchi combined the ancient traditions of Japan with the vitality of contemporary America. Indeed, his life moved between these two very different worlds, and during its course and beyond his work has been prized by art lovers in both the East and West. Noguchi's work as a sculptor is well known, but he also designed...