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Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama - Softcover

Kusama, Yayoi

 
9781849762137: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849762139 ISBN 13: 9781849762137
Verlag: Tate Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presents Infinity Net, a remarkable memoir that reveals her to be a fascinating figure, channeling her obsessive neurosis into an art that transcends cultural barriers.

Kusama describes arriving in New York in 1957 as a poverty-stricken artist and later becoming the doyenne of an alternative art scene. She tells of her relationships with Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and the reclusive Joseph Cornell. She candidly discusses the obsessive visions that have haunted her throughout her life; returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama admitted herself to the psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she lives today, and from which she has produced the seemingly endless stream of artworks and writings that have won her acclaim across the globe.

Includes black-and-white illustrations

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yayoi Kusama is an internationally acclaimed, widely exhibited Japanese artist. Ralph McCarthy is a literary translator.

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Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging autobiography tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, revealing herself as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers.
Kusama describes the decade she spent in New York, first as a poverty-stricken artist and later as the doyenne of an alternative countercultural scene. She provides a frank and touching account of her relationships with keyart-world figures, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd and the reclusive Joseph Cornell, with whom Kusama forged a close bond. In candid terms she describes her childhood and the first appearance of the obsessive visions that have haunted her throughout her life. Returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she resides to the present day, emerging to dedicate herself with seemingly endless vigour to her art and her writing.

This remarkable autobiography provides a powerful insight into a unique artistic mind, haunted by fears and phobias yet determined to maintain her position at the forefront of the artistic avant-garde.

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Verlag
Tate Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849762139
ISBN 13 
9781849762137
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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