Street Art/today - The 50 most influential street artists today

Frances Morris
Tate Publishing

Accompanying the first major American retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work, and an exhibition at Tate Modern in London, this volume offers a definitive monograph on Japan's most famous living artist. It features a wealth of works from all periods in Kusama's career, as well as essays by various international curators and critics, discussing Kusama's years in New York, her career after her return to Japan, her installation works and the psychoanalytic import of her art. Kusama's originality, innovation and sheer drive to make art have propelled her through a career that has spanned six decades, encompassing painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, collage, film and video, performance, installation and even product design. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s Kusama lived in New York, and was at the forefront of many artistic innovations in the city, becoming close with artists such as Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell and Claes Oldenburg, and influencing many others along the way. It was in these years that Kusama was dubbed "the Polka Dot Princess," for her obsessive use of polka dots in installations and happenings. Returning to Japan in her forties, she rebuilt her career, waiting years for the international recognition that she has recently achieved. Now in her ninth decade, Kusama's imagination remains fertile and productive, as she continues to devise dazzling installations and relentlessly hand-paints her ongoing series of minutely detailed figurative fantasy paintings.
Yayoi Kusama was born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929. She left Japan for New York at the age of 28, following a correspondence with Georgia O'Keeffe, and was soon participating in the city's 1960s wave of happenings and avant-garde activities. In 1973, Kusama returned to Japan and began writing surrealistic novels and poetry. On November 12, 2008, Christie's New York sold a work by her for $5.1 million, a record for a living female artist.

Mika Yoshitake
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

This book explores Yayoi Kusama's best-known and most spectacular series--the Infinity Mirror Rooms--and its influence on the course of contemporary art over the past 50 years. 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.

Published in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Beat Kuert
dust&scratches

AA.VV.
Vallecchi editore

Gianni Mercurio
Viviani Editore

Beat Kuert
Artist and Timezone 8 Limited

Ghosting is the most complete publication on Li Qing, whose Finding Differences and Images of Mutual Undoing and Unity series have won him much attention in China over the past five years. Alongside these, Ghosting also reproduces some individual works and newer installation and photography works.

Francesco Boni, Giovanni Granzotto, Dino Maragon
Giorgio Corbelli editore

s.a.
Mazzotta

Catalogo della mostra, tenuta alla Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, sullo spazialismo a Venezia nell'immediato dopoguerra e per tutti gli anni Cinquanta. Opere di: E. Bacci, A. Bergolli, A. Burri, G. Capogrossi, R. Crippa, E. Donati, G. Dova, E. Finzi, L. Fontana, L. Gaspari, B. Gasparini, V. Guidi, B. Joppolo, A. Jorn, R. Licata, Matta, G. Morandi, C. Peverelli, S. Rampin, E. Scanavino, J. Serpan, E. Sottsass, Tancredi, V. Vianello.

Gian Alberto dell'Acqua
Galleria Braga

Elizabeth Ashburn
Craftsman House

This benchmark publication documents the diversity and vitality of lesbian talent in Australia. A hitherto marginalised group, lesbian artists are now being incorporated into mainstream culture and this book provides a timely introduction to the issues explored by these artists, which include sexuality, mythology and religion, mass media and technology. The development of different modes of production through collaborative processes and collective art making is also discussed. The history of the emergence of lesbian art practice into contemporary culture is charted through documentation of alternative exhibition spaces, legislation, protest marches and events such as the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras held annually in Sydney. The acceptance of lesbian art as an art of difference rather than of community is examined. The diversity in lesbian art practice is highlighted through the variety of styles, art forms and practices which the author has uncovered. Performance art, film, video, computer generated imagery as well as painting, sculpture, graphic arts and craft reinforce the impression of a vital, imaginative body of work making an important contribution to late twentieth-century visual art. This book, with its theoretical discussion, historical overview and profiles of leading practitioners will be an invaluable resource for artists, students and teachers in art schools, women's, gender and queer studies, feminists, homosexuals and lesbians.

Maurizio Nannucci
stadtische galeri im lenbachhaus

Massimiliano Gioni
Hatje Cantz Verlag