Infinity net : the autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

by Yayoi Kusama

Paper Book, 2011

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Available

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is one of the most talked-about artists working today. This remarkable memoir reveals her to be a fascinating figure, channeling her obsessive neurosis into an art that transcends cultural barriers. Kusama describes arriving in New York in 1957 as a poverty-stricken artist and later becoming the doyenne of an alternative art scene. She tells of her relationships with Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, and the reclusive Joseph Cornell. She candidly discusses the obsessive visions that have haunted her throughout her life; returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama admitted herself to the psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she lives today, and from which she has produced the seemingly endless stream of artworks and writings that have won her acclaim across the globe.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member kgib
I love her straightforward (you might even say bold) statements about what she accomplished. No false humility here. Aside from her art fame, I wonder if she deserves more credit for shaping some of the ideas of the sixties (especially with the "happenings").
LibraryThing member kencf0618
An artist's artist and an outlier's outlier during a radical time, Yayoi Kusama has stayed the course and dreed out her wyrd all these decades. A fascinating and eye-opening memoir, as well as a minor but important addition to the pre-Stonewall LGBT literature/anthropology. Bizarre, prescient, and
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Language

Original language

Japanese
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