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The Little Mermaid : a fairy tale of infinity & love forever
- Title
- The Little Mermaid : a fairy tale of infinity & love forever / Hans Christian Andersen and Yayoi Kusama.
- Author
- Kusama, Yayoi
- Publication
- Louisiana : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- 94 pages : illustrations; 34 cm
- Summary
- Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid' (1839), a story about a girl from the sea who followed her dreams and suffered a disastrous fate on land, is known all over the world (particularly in its animated incarnation). But the familiar story is brought to new life in this gorgeous edition, a collaboration between the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and artist Yayoi Kusama. Paired with Hans Christian Andersen's original text, the densely patterned, undulating line drawings of Kusama's Love Forever series (2004-2007) conjure up storms in the roiling waves of the ocean, the Little Mermaid's vast underwater kingdom and her longing to live in the human world. Kusama's fertile, endlessly repeating forms are an ideal match for the poetic and disturbing universe evoked in the fairy tale; the result is a true collaboration. Kusama's drawings both illustrate and interpret Andersen's story, bringing it to terrifying life, and Andersen's words lend narrative content to Kusama's landscapes of unblinking eyes, curling tendrils and disembodied profiles.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Little Mermaid : a fairy tale of infinity and love forever
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Call Number
- JQG 17-54
- ISBN
- 9788792877598
- 8792877591
- OCLC
- 959328615
- Author
- Kusama, Yayoi, artist.
- Title
- The Little Mermaid : a fairy tale of infinity & love forever / Hans Christian Andersen and Yayoi Kusama.
- Publisher
- Louisiana : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, [2016]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- DIST. BY D.A.P. ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON BY KUSAMA. TRANSL. 8" X 13.25".
- Research Call Number
- JQG 17-54