Research Catalog

Title

Yayoi Kusama / Robert Shore.

Author

Shore, Robert (Robert M.),

Publication

• London : Laurence King Publishing, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

144 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 19 cm.

Summary

"Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has remained her home to this day. But, though she was removed from the world, she was definitely not in retirement. Her love and belief in the polka dot has given birth to some of the most surprising and inspiring installations and paintings of the last four decades - and made her exhibitions the most visited of any single living artist." --

Series Statement

Lives of the artists

Uniform Title

Lives of the artists.

Subject

• Artists > Japan
• Artists
• Japan
• Kusama, Yayoi
• Women artists > Japan
• Women artists

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index.

Contents

A summer of love and hate -- Born to stars and bombs -- The world beyond the mountains -- Netting New York -- Boats and other phallic symbols -- Macaroni, love and mirrors -- The public artist -- A series of explosions -- ‘Person of the hour’ -- The return to Japan -- ‘A lyrical frame of mind’ -- The Kusama renaissance -- The ultimate victory of Yayoi Kusama.

ISBN

• 9781786277862
• 1786277867

LCCN

60002431215

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries