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Yayoi Kusama : 1945-now / edited by Doryun Chong and Mika Yoshitake.
Fine Arts Library N7359.K87 A4 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Yayoi Kusama (2022)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kusama, Yayoi--Exhibitions.
- Kusama, Yayoi.
- Kusama, Yayoi--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Yayoi Kusama : 1945 to now
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 2022.
- Summary:
- " ... is the most comprehensive survey of the artist's work to date. Organised around six thematic sections, it includes a series of essays exploring different aspects of her practice, a detailed illustrated chronology, and examples of her extensive writings--some of which have never been published before"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Suhanya Raffel
- Transmigration of a soul: Yayoi Kusama's eternal recurrence / Mika Yoshitake
- Infinity
- Accumulation
- The Biocosmic
- Radical connectivity
- Death
- Force of life / Alex A. Jones
- Visual chronology: the life and times of Yayoi Kusama / Alex A. Jones
- Narcissus garden: how Yayoi Kusama has become a global cultural icon and what she and her art can teach us about the way we exist in the world now / Doryun Chong
- Yayoi Kusama: body, death, and transformation / Isabella Tam
- Roundtable discussion: Yayoi Kusama's exhibitions / Doryun Chong [and seven others]
- Selected writings
- Essay: "The painter's appeal: open your eyes to art" (excerpt), 1952
- Essay: "Ivan the fool," 1955
- Correspondence: with Georgia O'Keefe, 1955
- Essay: "Excerpts from postwar reflections," ca. 1960
- Essay: "Under the spell of accumulation," 1961
- Interview: "Miss Yayoi Kusama: interview / prepared for WABC Radio by Gordon Brown, executive editor of Art voices', June 1964
- Artist statement: "Garden of Narcissus," 1966
- Interview: Jud Yalkut, "The polka dot way of life (conversations with Yayoi Kusama)," New York Free Press, 15 February 1968
- Manifesto: Anatomic explosion press release, 13 October 1968
- Essay: "Museum politics," 1970
- Play: Tokyo Leee (excerpt), ca. 1971
- Essay: "The struggle and wanderings of my soul' (excerpt), 1975
- Interview: "Yoshie Yoshida dialogue series" (excerpt), 1982
- Essay: "'Beyond obsession'! [sic]: Kusama opens a shining door to the 21st century," 1988
- Poem: "Resplendent road," 2007
- Interview: "Ryū Murakami calls on Yayoi Kusama," 2015.
- Notes:
- "With 347 illustrations."
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition at M+, Hong Kong, 12 November 2022 to 14 May 2023"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-388) and index.
- Contains:
- Kusama, Yayoi. Works. Selections
- ISBN:
- 9780500025857
- 0500025851
- OCLC:
- 1350640259
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