Yayoi Kusama
London: Tate Publishing, 2012. Hardcover. A white casebound book with the title debossed across the front cover and down the spine. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in red down a black spine. The free and pasted end pages are color illustrated. Pages: (5), 6-208. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the front free end page. Stamp on the top text block. Item #202904
ISBN: 9781935202813
"Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is arguably Japan's most famous living artist. Her originality, innovation and powerful desire to communicate have propelled her through a career that has spanned six decades. During this time, Kusama has explored painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, collage, film and video, performance and installation, as well as product design. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s Kusama lived in New York and was at the forefront of many artistic innovations in the city. Returning to Japan in her forties, she rebuilt her career, waiting years for the international recognition she has recently achieved. Now in her eightieth year, she continues to make art, extending the range of her large-scale, dazzling installations and relentlessly hand-painting extensive series of minutely detailed figurative fantasy paintings. Kusama has exhibited widely around the world, including representing Japan at the Venice Biennale, and her work is in many major collections. Accompanying the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist's work to be staged in the UK, this lavishly illustrated book features an introductory essay by Tate curator Frances Morris as well as four other substantial essays by leading international critics. Topics covered include Kusama's time in New York, her career after her return to Japan, her installation works and an exploration of her art from a psychoanalytical point of view." Contents are as follows: Introduction / Frances Morris -- Plates / with section introductions by Rachel Taylor. Early years, 1929-1957 -- Coming to America : infinity net paintings, 1957-1961 -- Accumulation sculptures and collages, 1961-1965 -- Walking piece, Narcissus Garden and self-portraiture, 1966 -- Kusama's self-obliteration and the rise of happenings, 1967-1973 -- Return to Japan, 1973-1983 -- Experiments in sculpture and painting, 1980s and 1990s -- I'm here, but nothing and installations at the turn of the century, 2000-2008 -- Recent work, 2009-2012 -- Essays. Rising from totalitarianism : Yayoi Kusama, 1945-1955 / Midori Yamamura -- Infinity politics / Mignon Nixon -- I'm here, but nothing : Yayoi Kusama's environments / Jo Applin -- Portrait of the artist as a young flower / Juliet Mitchell.
OCLC: 883926664
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