Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

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.
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Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

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.
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Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849762137
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Publication date: 08/04/2015
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 204,744
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author


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

Table of Contents

Prologue 6

Part 1 To New York: My Debut as an Avant-garde Artist 1957/1966 9

Part 2 Before Leaving Home: Awakening as an Artist 1929/1957 59

Part 3 No More War: The Queen of Peace: Avant-garde Performance Art for the People 1967/1974 97

Part 4 People I've Known, People I've Loved: Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Cornell, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and Others 155

Part 5 Made in Japan: Worldwide Kusamania 1975/2002 189

Index 234

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