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    Yayoi Kusama
    Utopia & Contemporary Art
    • Yayoi Kusama

      In Infinity

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      A non-Western female artist arriving in the US as Pop art and Minimalism were beginning to take shape, Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) was part of these milieus but also remained somewhat outside of them, developing a highly distinctive artistic universe. Yayoi In Infinity offers an extensive overview of the major stages of Kusama’s from her abstract, intensively hand-crafted Infinity Net paintings (which made Kusama’s initial reputation in New York) to the soft, eroticized furniture sculptures covered in hundreds of white, penis-like forms, ending with Kusama’s recent works that shape whole spaces as intense environments. This volume also includes new essays discussing Kusama’s artistic and literary work and four of Kusama’s own poems.

      Yayoi Kusama2015
    • Utopia & Contemporary Art

      • 176 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      The last decade has witnessed a noticeable return to utopia and utopian thinking in contemporary art. This volume convenes artists, academics and curators to discuss different ways of thinking and performing utopia. Divided into two sections, "Utopia Revisited" and "Utopian Positions," it considers both artists exploring the theme as subject matter and artists actively aspiring towards utopian ideals.

      Utopia & Contemporary Art2012