Yayoi Kusama : I spend each day embracing flowers
2024
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"The newest book from the internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presents her latest monumental and vibrant work and is the first to explore the experience of seeing it from the lens of the visitor. 'My entire life has been painted here. Every day, any day. I will never cease dedicating my whole life to my love for the universe.' --Yayoi Kusama. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Kusama has created a profoundly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable, her works frequently deploy repetitive elements such as dots to evoke both microscopic and macroscopic universes. Celebrating the visitor experience, this publication offers an immersive tour of Kusama's 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colourful flower sculptures, and a fan-favourite Infinity Mirror Room, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama's own. New scholarship by Robert Slifkin considers how Kusama innovates and complicates art-historical traditions of image production and how her art seeks to connect humans with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama's work and the ways in which it, across the decades, can be seen as a record of love in all its complexity: full of humanity, generosity, affection, sadness, and pain"--
Main title:
Yayoi Kusama : I spend each day embracing flowers / [texts by Robert Slifkin and Lynn Zelevansky].
Author:
Kusama, Yayoi, artistZelevansky, Lynn, essayistSlifkin, Robert, essayistDavid Zwirner (Gallery), host institution
Edition:
Hardcover edition.
Imprint:
New York : David Zwirner Books, [2024]
Collation:
164 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Aspiring to Pumpkin's love, the love in my heartDreaming of Earth's sphericity, I would offer my loveYayoi Kusama: unfinished to the end / Lynn ZelevanskyEvery day I pray for loveKusama's cosmic photogenicism / Robert SlifkinI spend each day embracing flowers.
ISBN:
9781644231333 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
574559
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft | 709.2 KUS | Onloan - Due: 26 Jul 2025 |