Summary
‘I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland’ Yayoi Kusama
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city’s counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has rem…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786277862 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786277867 |
| Author: | Robert Shore |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Laurence King Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 186mm x 126mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Lives of the Artists |
About The Author
Robert Shore
Robert Shore is the author of Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera (2014) and Beg, Steal and Borrow: Artists against Originality (2017). He has worked as creative director of the contemporary visual culture brand Elephant and as deputy editor of Art Review magazine.
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