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A retrospective of Yayoi Kusama, Japan's most prominent artist and 'Queen of the Polka Dots'

Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama’s matchless creativity and originality have been captivating the world since she moved from Matsumoto, her hometown in Nagano, Japan, to the USA in 1958. In the last ten years alone, her retrospective exhibitions in four major European and American museums, including Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, have seen record attendance.

Kusama has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. This comprehensive publication, originally published to accompany a sell-out exhibition at Matsumoto City Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive overview of Kusama’s entire career, including works from her youth, when she indulged in drawing in order to escape from her hallucinations; paintings made when she was based in New York, including ‘Infinity Nets’ and ‘Polka Dots’; works from the 1980s and 1990s, when she participated in the Venice Biennale; and last but not least, the ongoing large-scale series ‘My Eternal Soul’. The plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions.

About the Authors:

Yayoi Kusama (born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content.
Akira Shibutami is a curator at the Matsumoto City Museum of Art.

This colourful children’s book tells the story of the renowned artist Yayoi Kusama and her quest to cover the world in polka dots – from here to infinity!

Growing up in the mountains of Japan, Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming an artist. One day, she had a vision in which the world and everything in it – the plants, the people, the sky – was covered in polka dots. She began to cover her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and even her body with dots. As she grew up, she travelled all around the world and brought her dots with her, spreading them over big cities and small islands alike. Some people thought the dots were tiny, like cells, and others imagined them enormous, like planets. Yayoi said, ‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity.’ Written by Sarah Suzuki, a MoMA curator, with illustrations by Ellen Weinstein, this colourful book tells the story of an artist whose work will not be complete until her dots cover the world, from here to infinity.

In celebration of one of Kusama’s most iconic infinity rooms

A tribute to Yayoi Kusama, the world’s most popular artist, according to The Art Newspaper and The Guardian.

Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan’s most important and famous artists, beloved across multiple generations and different audiences, capable of wonder and amazement. Infinito presente is a tribute to her original and unique art, focusing on Fireflies on the Water one of her most iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Fireflies on the Water is a room-sized installation where, as the title suggests, the lights seem almost natural, like fireflies on a quiet summer’s night. The pool of water creates an incredible sense of stillness and the mirrors reflect never-ending images of themselves, creating a sidereal ambience. Space appears infinite, without top or bottom, beginning or end. As in Yayoi Kusama’s early installations, including her Infinity Mirror Room (1965), Fireflies on the Water embodies an almost hallucinatory approach to reality. Although linked to the artist’s personal mythology and the process of therapeutic work, this work also references sources as diverse as the myth of Narcissus and Kusama’s native Japanese landscape.

About the Author:

Stefano Raimondi, contemporary art curator, is director of network The Blank Contemporary Art, Italy’s leading network dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of contemporary art and the territory in which it is embedded.

World-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, performance art, and installation. Kusama’s iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, which originated with Phalli’s Field in 1965, situate viewers in kaleidoscopic spaces filled with multicolored lights or whimsical forms. These mirror-lined installations reflect endlessly, distorting rooms to project the illusion of infinite space. Over the years, the works have come to symbolize different modalities within the various contexts they have inhabited, from Kusama's “self-obliteration” in the Vietnam War era to her more harmonious aspirations in the present.

By examining her early unsettling installations alongside her more recent ethereal atmospheres, this volume aims to historicize the body of work amidst the resurgence of experiential practices within the global landscape of contemporary art. Generously illustrated, this publication invites readers to examine the series’ impact over the course of the artist’s career. Accompanying essays, an interview with the artist, and a scholarly chronology round out the book.

Exhibition at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, February 16 - May 14, 2017

About the Author:

Mika Yoshitake is Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Alexander Dumbadze is Chair and Associate Professor of Art History at The George Washington University, Washington, Dc. GloriaA Sutton is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at Northeastern University, Boston. Miwako Tezuka is Consulting Curator at Arakawa + Gins Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York.

Loosen up with a smile on your face...

Marion Deuchars has practiced yoga for many years, and well knows the benefits it brings. Now she shares that passion with her illustrated character Bob the Bird, whose expressive poses will charm you into a reviving session of yoga breathing, stretching, posing, and mindfulness.

Yoga for Stiff Birds rejects the clichés of studio photography in favour of a more immediate, inviting, look. With a few brush strokes Marion helps Bob into every position from the downward-facing dog to the tree; both useful and inspiring, her art will raise a smile, whether you’re a regular practitioner or a yoga novice, and will encourage even the creakiest reader to breathe, stretch, and bend like they never have before.

About the Author:

Marion Deuchars' distinctive and individual style has established her as one of the UK's leading visual creatives. Her lettering has appeared on the Royal Mail's stamps, in Jamie Oliver's cookbooks, in Cass Art's shop windows, the pages of the Guardian, and on numerous book covers; she has won Gold and Silver awards at the Art Directors Club NY, and three D&AD yellow pencils. Along the way she has also written numerous books for artists young and old, including Let's Make Some Great Art, Bob the Artist, Art Play and Colour.

Навчіться малювати бестіарій надприродних істот з японського фольклору та відкривайте їхнє походження по ходу.

Йокай – це японський термін для містичних істот, який охоплює низку надприродних явищ, зокрема демонів, монстрів, привидів і мінливців. Іноді милі, іноді страшні, але завжди чарівні, створіння часто знаходяться в центрі популярних історій аніме та манги. У Yokai Bestiary навчіться малювати 35 типів Йокаїв, вивчаючи їх фольклор.

Створена для художників будь-якого рівня кваліфікації, ця покрокова книжка з малювання покаже вам, як блокувати великі форми, правильно затіняти, щоб надати розміру та глибини вашим малюнкам, і малювати дрібні, але культурно важливі деталі. Серед типів йокай ви навчитеся малювати:

- Кіцуне, лисичі демони з кількома хвостами
- Каппа, рептилійноподібні духи з панциром черепахи на спині
- Тенгу, монстри з птахоподібними характеристиками
- Кодама, духи дерев
- Некомата, коти з двома хвостами
- І багато іншого!

З інструкціями з малювання та японською міфологією, щоб захопити ваш розум, Yokai Bestiary перенесе вас у фантастичну країну звірів і духів.

Про автора:

Ленс Ред – ілюстратор фентезі та дизайнер персонажів, який живе в Мічигані. Він надає детальні ілюстрації для ігор і книговидавництва, а також для приватних комісій. Він також нещодавно почав ділитися більшою частиною свого процесу, зосереджуючись на освіті на Patreon, який включає створення ілюстрацій для настільних ігор, пригодницьких книг, конгресів тощо, а також навчання починаючих художників за допомогою програм онлайн-бібліотек.

Yokai are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. In the Edo period (1603-1868), many artists, such as Hokusai Katsushika or Kuniyoshi Utagawa, created their works of featuring Yokai inspired by folklore or their own ideas. Yokai have attracted the artists and have been a common theme in art works until these days because of their unique forms and their mysterious behaviors.

This book is a visual collection of art works of Yokai in Japan since the Edo period. The works are not only paintings but also wood block prints, scrolls, ceramics, kimonos, children’s playthings such as board games, and more. This would be an attractive book for Yokai beginners/maniacs, and would be also a valuable source for designers and illustrators.

About the collection: Most of the items that will be featured in the book come from personal collections by Koichi Yumoto, who has the largest Yokai collection in Japan. He comments on the history of Yokai and explains about the items in the book.

About the Yumoto Koichi Collection:

This is the largest personal collection of Yokai art in Japan. Around 4,000 works which range from the Edo period to the present day. These include painting, woodbock prints, scrolls, ceramics, kimonos, wooden sculptures, magazines, children’s toys, board games, and more. In April 2019, the collection was housed in the new Yokai Museum called Miyoshi Mononoke Museum located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.　

Rising star Charles Fréger brings his inimitable eye to unfamiliar Japanese folk rituals

In rural Japan the passage of the year is marked by festivals and rituals that have changed little for centuries. Elaborate outfits, crafted from textiles as well as branches, straw and elements sourced from the natural environment, are donned in agricultural and fishing communities throughout Japan to celebrate seasonal rites of fertility and abundance.

Yokainoshima (literally ‘island of monsters’) explores the extraordinary range of masks, costumes and characters that reappear with each returning season. Charles Fréger’s photographs combine acute documentary attentiveness with individual portraiture in an entirely fresh and distinctive style.

Toshiharu Ito and Akihiro Hatanaka, both specialists in Japanese folk culture and anthropology, analyse Fréger’s photographs, setting the huge variety of eclectic clothing in ethnographic context and describing the local festivals, dances and rituals. A final illustrated reference section describes individual costumes and masks.

About the Author:

Charles Fréger is a photographer based in Rouen, France. Internationally acclaimed for his subtle and poetic portraiture, he has devoted himself to the representation of social groups. Previous books include Wilder Mann and Portraits in Lace.

Цукіока Йосітосі (1839-1892) був останнім великим майстром ксилографії традиції укійо-е. Завдяки своєму характерному стилю драматичних ліній і використанню чудових кольорів, Йосітоші незабаром був визнаний сучасниками як найвидатніший художник по дереву свого часу. «Сто аспектів Місяця» вважається його найбільшим досягненням. Серіал оживляє історію та міфологію стародавньої Японії. На всіх 100 принтах місяць помітно, або чітко видно на самому малюнку, або згадується в красивому вірші в текстовому картуші. Сюжети принтів варіюються від історичних персонажів, таких як романіст і придворна дама Мурасакі Сікібу з періоду Хейан (794-1185) і самураїв-воєначальників, таких як Такеда Шінген (1521-1573), до міфологічних істот і сцен, пов’язаних з японськими театральними формами кабукі, но і кьоген. У серії не лише багато посилань на японську літературу та культуру, а й багато посилань на літературні традиції Китаю, які мали великий вплив на культурний розвиток класичної Японії.

Про редактора:

Бас Верберк, японський куратор Музею східноазійського мистецтва в Кельні, пропонує чіткі описи з новими ідеями та знаннями про цю популярну серію, яка вперше представлена ​​в неяпонській публікації.

Get started, get inspired, and get creating your own stunning collage artworks.

The ultimate accessible artform, collage is truly for everyone. Stephanie Hartman, creator of Collage Club Ldn, takes you through all the basics you'll need to create your own works of collage. Learn how to find and choose materials, what tools you'll need in your basic kit and how to get started on your artistic journey.

Simple warm-up exercises give you the confidence to overcome the fear of the blank page, and more complex step-by-step exercises will motivate you to push your practice to the next level.

Never be stuck for inspiration again, and discover a unique, tactile and transformative artform that anyone can learn.

About the Author:

Stephanie Hartman is a collage artist and the founder of Collage Club Ldn. She leads popular workshops celebrating the art of cutting and sticking, and has worked with brands and organisations such as ASOS, Adidas, Toast and the Royal Academy.

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In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism.Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world.

The works of this “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of “living brushes,” in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper.

This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color.

Погляд на видатного китайського виконавця, скульптора та художника.

Чжан Хуань став одним із найважливіших митців свого часу, безстрашним дослідником меж людського тіла та ключовою фігурою на процвітаючій сцені китайського мистецтва. Його перші виступи, зокрема «12 м2, 65 кг» і «Підвищити рівень води в рибному ставку», піддавали його тіло виснажливим випробуванням на витривалість, розглядаючи зв’язок між фізичною витривалістю та духовним спокоєм.

Переїзд Чжана до Нью-Йорка в 1998 році сприяв його становленню як однієї з найбільш визнаних фігур у міжнародному сучасному мистецтві та призвів до виступів у містах по всьому світу, включаючи Сідней, Рим, Шанхай і Гамбург. У 2006 році він заснував студію в Шанхаї, де почав шукати більшого зв’язку з китайською спадщиною та історією. Це ознаменувало новий напрямок у його творчості, оскільки він повернувся від перформансу до скульптури, живопису та інсталяції. Створюючи великомасштабні скульптури, часто використовуючи знайдені предмети, такі як двері з сільських китайських будинків, він продовжує досліджувати нові способи відобразити свій інтерес до людського тіла та його унікальної мови.

Буддійські теми, які опосередковано фігурували в його ранніх роботах, набули більш помітної ролі після візиту до Тибету в 2005 році. Там він почав збирати фрагменти буддійських скульптур, які потім використовував як моделі для масивних мідних фігур. Після повернення до Шанхаю він почав використовувати попіл ладану з місцевих буддійських храмів у своїх скульптурах і картинах. Попіл, продукт релігійних підношень, зміцнює зв’язок між його мистецтвом і буддистською духовною практикою.

В інтерв’ю РоузЛі Голдберг обговорює з Чжаном своє життя та мотиви, своє дитинство в сільській провінції Тан’їнь і усвідомлення того, що його тіло може бути найкращим засобом самовираження. Огляд Yilmaz Dziewior аналізує еволюцію творчості Чжана від його ранніх суперечливих виступів у Пекіні до його інтересу до буддизму та його недавніх розробок монументальних скульптур і живопису, деякі з яких потребують понад сотні помічників. Роберт Сторр зосереджується на «Будівництві каналу» (2007), епічній картині з попелу, яка є свідченням величезної сили колективної праці. Для вибору художника Чжан вибрав уривок із вчень стародавнього ченця тігуан, зібраний його учнем Мяодзі. Записи художника включають власні яскраві думки Чжана про його мистецтво та його життя, включаючи раніше неопубліковані заяви художника.

Про авторів:

Інтерв’ю: РоузЛі Голдберг – історик мистецтва, критик і куратор, яка започаткувала дослідження перформансу. Автор кількох основоположних книг, у тому числі Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979) та Performance: Live Art from the 1960s (1998), вона є директором-засновником «Performa», некомерційної організації з розробки, замовлення та презентації мистецтва перформансу.

Опитування: Їлмаз Дзевір – критик і куратор із Гамбурга, де він є професором теорії мистецтва у Вищій школі мистецтва. Раніше він був куратором Музею Людвіга в Кельні та директором Kunstverein у Гамбурзі, де він організував виставку робіт Чжан Хуана в 2002 році, зараз він є співкуратором 7-ї бієнале візуальних мистецтв у Лімерику (2009). Його твори публікувалися в Artforum, Camera Austria та Texte zur Kunst, а також у численних каталогах виставок.

Фокус: Роберт Сторр – декан Школи мистецтв Єльського університету. Колишній старший куратор Музею сучасного мистецтва в Нью-Йорку, він керував бієнале SITE у Санта-Фе в 2004 році та Венеціанською бієнале в 2007 році. Він був співавтором Фейдонових Алекса Каца (2005), Луїзи Буржуа (2003) і Реймонда Петібона (2001), а також регулярно пише для численних журналів і журналів, зокрема Art. в Америці — Фріз і Паркетт.

Fascinating and richly illustrated stories of flowers for every day of the year.

Every day of the year a different species of flower bursts into bloom somewhere in the world. This collection of 366 flowers reveals not only their beauty but the fascinating botanical, literary, folkloric and historical stories behind them.  

Discover the magnificent magnolia, which evolved more than 95 million years ago at the time of dinosaurs, and the specific perfumed rose that covers the land around Grasse in France. Read about the powerful medicinal elements of the Manuka bush flowers and the inspiration behind William Wordsworth's 'host of golden daffodils'.

Here are also the cheerful Mexican marigolds bedecking urban graveyards, delicate cherry or sakura blossoming along Japanese avenues, spectacular tropical vines hanging in the Philippine rainforest and flamboyant wildflowers carpeting meadows across Europe, showcasing the amazing variety of the natural world.

Illustrated with stunning photographs and works of art, this collection is a celebration of flowers and their special place in both the natural world and our culture.

About the Author:

Miranda Janatka is a botanical horticulturist, trained teacher and writer. She holds both the kew Diploma and a degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and she writes for the BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. Passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of nature and botany in particular, she has a strong social media following.

A hilarious how-to guide on being human by everyone’s favorite Bending Unit, Bender B. Rodriguez.

HEY MEATBAG! Are you a human or do you just want to be one? Do you think you’re good at being human? Well, you’re WRONG, pal! Get right with the info in Bender’s Guide to Life: By me, Bender!, and you too can be almost human! Here’s all the nitty-gritty detail on how to eat, drink, and be merry, in home life, work life, or any other kind of life that you might have.

From office pranks to how NOT to “Kill all humans!,” Bender’s Guide to Life features original art and questionable advice for the ages from all your Futurama favorites including Fry, Leela, Amy, and yes, Bender himself. And even some from no one’s favorite, Dr. John Zoidberg.

About the Author:

Matt Groening is the creator and executive producer of the Emmy® Award–winning series Futurama and The Simpsons, as well as creator of the animated television series Disenchantment. He is the man responsible for bringing animation back to prime time and creating an immortal nuclear family. In addition to supervising the ongoing production of his television series, he wrote and illustrated Life in Hell, a weekly syndicated comic strip, from 1977 to 2012.

A collection of reviews for the 1,000 most important, popular, and influential movies of all time.

While critiques of beloved Hollywood milestones from Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles are all included, this book is notably a resource for the modern cinema buff and student. Nowhere else can one find this curated collection of reviews with such special features as lists of best films by category and year, as well as unique recommendations and sidebars for the modern viewer--including what to watch and how: from DVD and Blu-Ray to streaming platforms.

In an era when most students and fans of film simply rely on the Internet for information, this category killer will prove its worth as a relevant and indispensable gift and reference.

About the Authors:

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won ninety-five Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.
Wallace Schroeder is a Texas-bred journalist who has twenty-five years of newspaper experience at the New York Times. An avid moviegoer since boyhood, he remembers the train wreck in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) as his first movie experience. Topping his own best-film list are Splendor in the Grass and The Wild Bunch.

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Пролистать книгу The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See