Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

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Yayoi Kusama's newest book delves into the visitor's experience of her monumental and vibrant work, offering a unique perspective on the widely revered Japanese artist.

“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

Considered a leading artist of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Yayoi Kusama has made an indelible mark in the world of art. Her unique oeuvre, developed since the 1950s, has captivated audiences globally. Her instantly recognizable works often incorporate repetitive elements, such as dots, to evoke both micro and macrocosms. This publication provides an immersive experience of Kusama's 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner New York, featuring thirty-five paintings, a giant pumpkin maze, towering flower garden, and the popular Infinity Mirror Room.

Through the inclusion of new scholarship by Robert Slifkin, readers gain insight into Kusama's innovative and complex approach to image production, as well as her exploration of humanity's connection with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her personal relationship with Kusama's work and how it has evolved over time, highlighting themes of love, compassion, and vulnerability.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s (b. 1929) work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Lynn Zelevansky is an American art historian and curator.

Robert Slifkin is a professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he teaches classes on modern and contemporary art and photography. He is the author of The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945–1975 and Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art, which was awarded the Phillips Book Prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as American Art, Artforum, The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, October, Oxford Art Journal, and Racquet.

Materials: Hardcover

Size: 10 in H x 8 in W

Item 9781644231333
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