We just love this expanded edition of Phaidon’s acclaimed monograph on Yayoi Kusama. From her giant pumpkins to her immersive installations, the book does a brilliant job of tracing the colourful career of this artist who became famous on the Manhattan scene in the 1960s. Yayoi Kusama plays with space, multiplying it with mirrors and invading it with dots.‘My life is a dot lost amidst thousands of other dots.’Yayoi Kusama transcended the world of art to herself become an element of popular culture, alongside Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Keith Haring… The fact that this 60-year-old Japanese artist with her wacky look and spirit has lived and worked in a psychiatrist hospital since 1977 didn’t stop her from being named the most popular artist of 2014 in a survey of museum attendance in that year published by Art Newspaper, or from eliciting admiration with works bordering on the psychedelic, challenging our ideas about space and reality.
The best book about the artist, unmissable…
Yayoi Kusama - Revised and Expanded Edition
Writers : Akira Tatehata, Laura Hoptman, Udo Kultermann & Catherine Taft. Published by Phaidon. 240 pages, 240 images / €49,95
