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Title: Infinity Net
Condition: New
EAN: 9781849762137
ISBN: 9781849762137
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 05/09/2013
Item Height: 232mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 17mm
Item Weight: 425g
Author: Yayoi Kusama
Language: English
Subtitle: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
ISBN-10: 1849762139
Description: Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This extraordinary text tells the story of her life and remarkable career in her own words.
'I am deeply terrified by the obsessions crawling over my body, whether they come from within me or from outside. I fluctuate between feelings of reality and unreality. I, myself, delight in my obsessions.'  
Infinity Net reveals Yayoi Kusama as a fascinating figure and maverick artist who channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers. Kusama describes the decade she spent in New York, first as a poverty-stricken artist and later as the doyenne of an alternative counter-cultural scene. She provides a frank and touching account of her relationships with key art-world figures, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd and the reclusive Joseph Cornell, with whom Kusama forged a close bond. In candid terms she describes her childhood and the first appearance of the obsessive visions that have haunted her throughout her life. Returning to Japan in the early 1970s, Kusama checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she resides to the present day, emerging to dedicate herself with seemingly endless vigour to her art and her writing. 
This remarkable autobiography provides a powerful insight into a unique artistic mind, haunted by fears and phobias yet determined to maintain her position at the forefront of the artistic avant-garde.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: Ralph McCarthy
Contributor: Ralph McCarthy (Translated by)
Genre: Biography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Year: 2013

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