Author: Hoptman, Laura (and) Akira Tatehata (and) Udo Kiltermann (and) Yayoi Kusama
Title: Yayoi Kusama
Description: London, Phaidon, 2000. Softcover. A white softcover book with the title in black down the spine. There is a color illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in white lettering down a yellow spine with black polka dots. Pages: (7), 8-160. Profusely illustrated with color images. "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." Contents are as follows: 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. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. Stamp on the title page. Sticker and stamp on the last page. Due date card on the back inside of the mylar jacket.

Keywords: Asian Artists ; Kusama, Yayoi ; ;


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