Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

The newest book from the widely revered Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama features 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, Yayoi Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since the 1950s, she 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, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite 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 looks at 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. EAN: 9781644231333 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 05.09.2024 Autoren: Kusama, Yayoi & Slifkin, Robert & Zelevansky, Lynn Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 168 Themenüberschrift: ART / Individual Artists / Monographs Keyword: Yayoi Kusama; David Zwirner; pumpkins; polka dots; infinity room; rain room; studio 54; Louis Vuitton; New York Botanical Garden; Japanese artist; female artist; woman artist; contemporary art; paintings; sculpture; performance art; Robert Slifkin; Lynn Zelevansky Fachschema: Englische Bücher / Kunst, Architektur, Fotografie~Japan / Kunst, Architektur, Museen, Design~Künstler - Künstlerin~Malerei (Kunst)~Kunstgeschichte Fachkategorie: Kunst: allgemeine Themen~Malerei und Gemälde~Kunstgeschichte Imprint-Titels: David Zwirner Books Länge: 260 mm Breite: 210 mm Höhe: 20 mm Gewicht: 1040 gr Produktform: Gebunden Genre: Importe