Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Condition: New Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1636811213 EAN: 9781636811215 ISBN: 9781636811215 Publisher: DelMonico Books/D.A.P. Release Date: 12/14/2023 Description: The first and only comprehensive volume exploring the artist’s best-known and most spectacular seriesThis book presents world-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s most famous series, the Infinity Mirror Rooms, and charts its influence on the course of contemporary art for over 50 years.Kusama’s rooms are filled with multicolored lights that reflect endlessly. Ranging from peep-show-like chambers to multimedia installations, each of Kusama’s kaleidoscopic environments offers the chance to step into an illusion of infinite space. This definitive publication traces these installations and reveals how, over the years, the works have come to symbolize different modalities, from Kusama’s “self-obliteration” in the Vietnam War era to her more harmonious aspirations in the present. By examining her early unsettling installations alongside her more recent atmospheres, this publication historicizes her pioneering work amid today’s renewed interest in experiential practices. Generously illustrated, this book invites readers to examine the series’ impact over the course of the artist’s career.Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) has worked not only in sculpture and installation but also painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction and other arts. In her early career in Japan, she produced mostly works on paper. With her late-1950s move to New York City, she joined the ranks of the avant-garde, working in soft sculpture and influencing the likes of Warhol and Oldenburg. At this time, she was also involved with happenings and other performance-oriented works and began to deploy her signature dots. Her work fell into relative obscurity after her return to Japan in 1973, but a subsequent revival of interest in the 1980s elevated her work to the canonical status that it still enjoys today. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 273mm Item Length: 222mm Contributor: Yayoi Kusama (By (artist)), Mika Yoshitake (Edited by), Melissa Chiu (Foreword by), Alexander Dumbadze (Text by), Gloria Sutton (Text by), Miwako Tezuka (Contributions by), Alex Jones (Contributions by) Author: Yayoi Kusama Genre: Arts & Photography Type: Monographs Release Year: 2023 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
