Description
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is one of the most talked-about artists working today. This remarkable memoir 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.
Author: Yayoi Kusama
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781849762137
ISBN10: 1849762139
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- Art | Individual Artists | General
Author: Yayoi Kusama
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781849762137
ISBN10: 1849762139
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- Art | Individual Artists | General
About the Author
Yayoi Kusama is an internationally acclaimed, widely exhibited Japanese artist.