Editing Isamu Noguchi (section)

==Bollingen Fellowship and life in Japan (1948–1952)==
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Following the suicide of his artist friend Arshile Gorky in 1948, and a failed romantic relationship with [[Nayantara Sahgal|Nayantara Pandit]] (the niece of Indian nationalist [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]), Noguchi applied for a [[Bollingen Fellowship]] to travel the world, proposing to study public space as research for a book about the "environment of leisure". It wasn't until 15 years after his death that this project came to fruition as an  international traveling exhibition<ref>''Isamu Noguchi: 18 Drawings, 18 Photographs.'' Introduction by Bonnie Rychlak. Essay by Pico Iyer. London: Ivory Press, 2007. [https://ivorypress.com/en/?editorial=isamu-noguchi-18-drawings-18-photographs]</ref> and a deluxe limited-edition publication,<ref>''Isamu Noguchi, 18 Drawings, 18 Photographs''. Ivory Press, 2007. https://ivorypress.com/en/?editorial=isamu-noguchi-18-drawings-18-photographs]</ref> organized by Noguchi's long-time assistant and curator at the Noguchi Museum, [[Bonnie Rychlak]].