"American art historian and Museum of Modern Art curator Laura Hoptman examines in her Survey the gradual transitions in the artist's work, from painting to performance, to installation, in the context of her international artistic contemporaries. Japanese poet and art critic Akira Tatehata discusses with the artist her own evolving relationship to her work and how it is received in Eastern and Western contexts. German-born art historian Udo Kultermann focusses on the artist's seminal installation work, Driving Image, (1959-64) which he exhibited in Essen, Germany, in 1966. The artist has selected tanka poems by Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a renowned Japanese poet who, like Kusama, combined the expression of personal suffering with great formal innovations in his work. Yayoi Kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a novelist, underground filmmaker and fashion designer." - Abstract, inside cover of book jacket. Also includes writings by the artist, chronology, bibliography and a list of illustrations.
Access level
Onsite
artist
publisher
Location code
MON.KUY
Language
English
Keyword
installation,  sculpture,  pop,  performance art,  conceptualism,  mixed media
Publication/Creation date
2000
No of pages
1
ISBN / ISSN
0714839205
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph
Chapter headings
Akira Tatehata in conversation with Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama: A Reckoning
Driving Image, Essen
Poems from A Handful of Dust
Interview with Gordon Brown (extract)
An Open letter to My Hero, Richard M. Nixon
Anatomic Explosion, Wall Street
Homosexual Wedding
Naked Self-obliteration: Interview with Jud Yalkut
Take a Subway Ride from Jail to Paradise
Why look Like Other People?
Alice in Wonderland
Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead
The Struggle and Wanderings of My Soul (extracts)
Manhattan Suicide Addict (extract)
Violet Obsession
Lost
The Hustlers' Grotto of Christopher Street (extract)
Across the Water: Interview with Damien Hirst (extract)
Yayoi Kusama

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