Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors

by Mika Yoshitake (Editor)

Other authorsYayoi Kusama (Contributor), Melissa Chiu (Contributor), Gloria Sutton (Contributor), Miwako Tezuka (Contributor), Alexander Dumbadze (Editor)
Hardcover, 2017

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Publication

Prestel (2017), 224 pages

Description

"Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms are filled with a multiplicity of lights that reflect endlessly, projecting the illusion of infinite space. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors traces these installations over five decades, revealing the ways in which they developed from a strategy of "self-obliteration" and political liberation during the Vietnam War to a means of social harmony in the present. By examining her early unsettling installations alongside her more recent ethereal atmospheres, this volume aims to historicize her pioneering work amidst today's renewed interest in experiential practices"--

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Original language

English

Original publication date

2017

Physical description

224 p.; 10.75 inches

ISBN

3791355945 / 9783791355948
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