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Kusama OrgyVol.1 Reprint (1969)

Yayoi Kusama - Kusama Orgy
Reprint of Yayoi Kusama's 1969 tabloid.
After studying Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting, Yayoi Kusama (born 1929 in Japan) left Japan in the mid-1950s for the United States, where she rapidly established herself as a leading figure of the New York avant-garde. Embodying the spirit of the 1960s, her groundbreaking and unclassifiable work challenged the dominant aesthetic of the day, asserting great formal liberty through the use of multiple media, including painting, sculpture, video, installation, environment, and performance. Yayoi Kusama is considered one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists, with exhibitions all over the world. Her work is not only of historical importance, it also appeals to a young and broad audience, and defies art concepts such as Minimal and Pop Art.
 
published in 2001
English edition
24 pages (colour cover, b/w illustrations)
 
ISBN : 978-2-84066-057-6
EAN : 9782840660576
 
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