Yayoi Kusama: the Dutch years, 1960-70

Abstract

"Yayoi Kusama is 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. This publication provides an overview of Kusama's earliest performative activities, staged especially for the camera, with previously unpublished photos. Naked and painted with dots, dressed in her self-designed fashion, posing in the streets of Amsterdam, in a time of an emerging sexual revolution. Written and visual accounts by eye-witnesses offer us a detailed insight into the colorful and erotic world of Yayoi Kusama for the first time, but also show us her particularly compelling, persuasive power to engage people in her universe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

The Dutch years: 1965-1970 / Schreuder, Catrien -- What came before: 1960-1965 / Tijs Visser -- Miss Yayoi Kusama / Gordon Brown -- Yayoi Kusama and Orez International Gallery / Caroline de Westenholz -- It was hallucination that drove me to paint / Yayoi Kusama -- Chronology: 1965-1970 / Tijs Visser -- Photography as Kusama's medium to merge with her infinite repetitions / Catrien Schreuder -- The unbridled love of Kusama / Yayoi exhibits panic in The Hague / Betty van Garrel -- The universe of polka dot Kusama / Anna Tilroe.