Title Yayoi Kusama / Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Udo Kultermann

Published London : Phaidon, 2000

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Description 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm Series Contemporary artists Contents Interview Akira Tatehata in conversation with Yayoi Kusama -- Survey. Yayoi Kusama a reckoning / Laura Hoptman -- Focus. Driving image, Essen, 1966 / Udo Kultermann -- Artist's choice. Poems from A handful of sand, 1910 / Takuboku Ishikawa -- Artist's writings. Interview with Gordon Brown (extract), 1964 An open letter to my hero, Richard M. Nixon, 1968 Anatomic explosion, Wall Street, 1968 Homosexual wedding, 1968 Naked self-obliteration interview with Jud Yalkut, 1968 Take a subway ride from jail to paradise, 1968 Why look like other people?, 1968 Alice in Wonderland, 1968 Grand orgy to awaken the dead, 1969 The struggle and wanderings of my soul (extracts), 1975 Manhattan suicide addict (extract), 1978 Violet obsession, 1978 Lost, 1983 The hustler's grotto of Christopher Street (extracts), 1984 Across the water interview with Damen Hirst (extract), 1998 / Yayoi Kusama -- Chronology Summary A comprehensive overview of the visionary work of the Japanese artist. This monograph documents the work of Japanese sculptor and performance artist Yayoi Kusama, internationally noted for her soft sculptures and psychedelic installations. Kusama explores themes of love, infinity and obsession throughout her work Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-representation, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her 'Infinity Nets': a series of heroically-scaled paintings covered in endlessly repetitive net-like patterns, which won the admiration of artists ranging from Barnett Newman to the discriminating Donald Judd. In Kusama's installations and sculptures she compulsively covers every surface, either in polka dots (Infinity Mirror Room, 1965), mirrors (Endless Love Show, 1966) or phallus-like protrusions (Violet Obsession, 1994). This book signifies the first ever monograph on the astounding 40-year career of this established, deeply daring and tirelessly experimental artist, who represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1993. It was published to coincide with an exhibition in 2000 at the Serpentine Gallery. Overall, Kusama is internationally respected for her soft sculptures and psychedelic installations, through which she also explores themes of love and obsession throughout her work, in all its diversity: from her net-like pattern paintings begun in 1959, to her Pop-inspired love happenings in the 1960s, to installations whose every surface has been completed boundlessly by a complex but always distinct pattern. A visionary whose work is unique in the panorama of post-war art, Kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a fashion designer, poet, novelist and film-maker -- all documented in this uniquely comprehensive monograph. American art historian and Museum of Modern Art curator Laura Hoptman examines in her Survey the gradual transitions in the artist's work, from painting to performance to installation, in the context of her international artistic contemporaries. Japanes poet and critic Akira Tatehata discusses with the artist her own evolving relationship with her work and how it is received in Eastern and Western contexts. German-born art historian Udo Kultermann focuses on the artist's seminal installation work Driving Image (1959-64), which he exhibited in Essen, Germany, in 1966. For Artist's Choice, the artist has selected tanka poems by Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a renowned Japanese poet who, like Kusama, combined the expression of personal suffering with great formal innovations in his work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159) Notes Also issued online Subject Kusama, Yayoi, 1929- Kusama, Yayoi, 1929- Kusama, Yayoi, 1929- -- Criticism and interpretation Kusama, Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi -- Criticism and interpretation 880-02 Kusama, Yayoi, 1929- -- Criticism and interpretation 880-02 草間, 弥生, 1929- SUBJECT 880-02 草間, 弥生, 1929- Subject 880-02 Kusama, Yayoi -- Criticism and interpretation Kusama, Yayoi -- Interviews Kusama, Yayoi -- Criticism and interpretation Women artists -- Japan Artists -- Japan Art, Japanese -- 20th century Performance art Performance art -- Japan Sculpture, Japanese -- 20th century Genre/Form Illustrated works. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Interviews. Illustrated works. Author Kusama, Yayoi, 1929- Kultermann, Udo Tatehata, Akira, 1947- 建畠, 晢, 1947- LC no. 00690797 ISBN 9780714839202 0714839205

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