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Born 1929 Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan. Known for: Obsessive pattern painting, collage, sculpture, installation.
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive hallucinations. In the early 1960s when she first gained attention, she covered many of her canvases with webs and spots and created "compulsion" furniture with stuffed phallic protuberances. These experiments with soft sculpture, mirrors and repetitive... Read full biography
Born in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-Ken, Japan, Yayoi Kusama became a colorful personality in the New York art world of the 1960s and has been described as an "outsider, eccentric, an obsessive, a femme fatale and a nonentity" . Her paintings reflect childhood hallucinations, and her art has been an attempt to exorcise those demons. In the late 1950s, she began a series of Infinity Net Paintings that reflected with dots, nets and flowers her childhood affliction of suffering from repetitive hallucinations. In the early 1960s when she first gained attention, she covered many of her canvases with webs and spots and created "compulsion" furniture with stuffed phallic protuberances. These experiments with soft sculpture, mirrors and repetitive images preceded similar work by Claus Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. In those years, she also did nude protest... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesWith an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection
2003Sherman, Charlotte (Essay)38 pages (color)Yayoi Kusama
2000Hoptman, Laura, U Kultermann0 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997Marquis Who's Who1,515 pagesArt Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995Fineberg, Jonathan496 pages (color)North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesArt Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesContemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesAmerican Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987Strickler, Susan (editor)232 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesAmerican Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)88 pages (color)Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Haskell, Barbara160 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesAmerican Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer560 pages (color)American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981Newark Museum431 pages (color)Art of the Sixties
1978Adams, Hugh80 pages (color)Tenth Street Days The Co-Ops of the 50's
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Bard, Joellan80 pagesSoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Block, Rene431 pagesBeyond Modern Art
1976Gottlieb, Carla434 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesWomen Artists in America II
1975Collins, Jim L.430 pages