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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama
Library Shelf Location 18.KUSA
Publication Date 2000
Description This is a monograph on the extraordinary 40 year career of Japanese sculptor and performance artist Yayoi Kusama, recently the subject of a major retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which toured the United States and Japan through 1999. In January-March 2000 the Serpentine Gallery, London will be presenting a large solo exhibition devoted to Kusama's work. Internationally noted for her soft sculptures an psychedelic installations, Kusama explores themes of love, infinity and obsession throughout her work, from her net-like pattern paintings begun in 1959, to her Pop-inspired love happenings in the 1960s, to installations in which every surface has been compulsively covered in polka-dots, mirrors or stuffed phallus-like protrusions. A visionary whose work is unique in the panorama of post-war art, Yayoi Kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a fashion-designer, poet and novelist - all documented in this comprehensive monograph.
ISBN 0714839205
Quantity 1
Pages 160
Authors Udo Kultermann, Laura Hoptman
Format Paperback
Publisher Phaidon Press Ltd, London
Related Artist Yayoi Kusama
Categories Installation, Painting, Sculpture, Live Art/Performance
Keyword Happenings
Artist's Nationality Japanese
Language English

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