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Yayoi Kusama : I spend each day embracing flowers  Cover Image Book Book

Yayoi Kusama : I spend each day embracing flowers / [texts by Robert Slifkin and Lynn Zelevansky].

Kusama, Yayoi, (artist. ). Zelevansky, Lynn, (essayist. ). Slifkin, Robert, (essayist. ). David Zwirner (Gallery), (host institution. ).

Summary:

"The newest book from the internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presents 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, Kusama 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 considers 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."-- Publisher's website

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781644231333
  • ISBN: 1644231336
  • Physical Description: 164 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
  • Edition: Hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, [2024]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Aspiring to Pumpkin's love, the love in my heart -- Dreaming of Earth's sphericity, I would offer my love -- Yayoi Kusama: unfinished to the end / Lynn Zelevansky -- Every day I pray for love -- Kusama's cosmic photogenicism / Robert Slifkin -- I spend each day embracing flowers.
Exhibitions Note:
"Published by David Zwirner Books on the occasion of Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers; David Zwirner, 519, 525, and 533 West 19th Street, New York, May 11-July 21, 2023"--Colophon.
Subject: Kusama, Yayoi > Exhibitions.
Kusama, Yayoi > Themes, motives.
Kusama, Yayoi > Criticism and interpretation.
Women artists > Japan > Exhibitions.
Art, Japanese > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Genre: Exhibition catalogs.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Lansdowne Library N 7359 K87 A4 2024 (Text) 26040003576515 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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