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Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

I am deeply terrified by the obsessions crawling over my body, whether they come from within me or from outside. I fluctuate between feelings of reality and unreality. I, myself, delight in my obsessions.'Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging autobiography tells the story of her life and extraordinary career in her own words, revealing her as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers. Kusama describes the decade she spent in New York, first as a poverty stricken artist and later as the doyenne of an alternative counter-cultural scene. She provides a frank and touching account of her relationships with key art-world figures, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd and the reclusive Joseph Cornell, with whom Kusama forged a close bond. In candid terms she describes her childhood and the first appearance of the obsessive visions that have haunted her throughout her life. Returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she resides to the present day, emerging to dedicate herself with seemingly endless vigour to her art and her writing. This remarkable autobiography provides a powerful insight into a unique artistic mind, haunted by fears and phobias yet determined to maintain her position at the forefront of the artistic avant-garde. In addition to her artwork, Yayoi Kusama is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and fiction, including The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street, Manhattan Suicide Addict and Violet Obsession.
212 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2021
Год выхода издания
2021
Издательство
Tate Publishing
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  • Simellenделится впечатлением7 лет назад
    💡Learnt A Lot

    Я прожил эту жизнь всего за несколько недель. Я знаю где я и куда иду. Жизнь прекрасна в своем разнообразии и искусство -- это ее лучшее проявление.

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  • Katya Kovalyovaцитирует6 лет назад
    By continuously reproducing the forms of things that terrify me, I am able to suppress the fear.
  • Katya Kovalyovaцитирует6 лет назад
    Each day I learned anew what an inscrutable, ambition-filled human struggle it is to paint, to create.
  • Katya Kovalyovaцитирует6 лет назад
    But I was under the spell of the polka dot nets. Bring on Picasso, bring on Matisse, bring on anybody! I would stand up to them all with a single polka dot. That was the way I saw it, and I had no ears to listen

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