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Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry

Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry

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A clever, quirky book about one of the world's most beloved contemporary artists - aimed at young readers and written from Kusama's point of view!

Yayoi Kusama covers her paintings in hundreds and hundreds of dots. Her dots come off her canvases to cover dresses, tables, walls, and more!

She creates mirrored rooms and fills them with glittering balls and lights, until there is an infinity of dots - just like in her paintings. Fausto Gilberti brings movement, life, and whimsy to the true life story of one of the most important contemporary Japanese artists of our time - an artist who is still dazzling museum- and gallery-goers around the globe today.

  • Written and illustrated by Fausto Gilberti
  • Ideal for art lovers and readers ages 4-7

Product Details

  • Product Type: Picture Book, Hardcover, with dust jacket
  • 48 pages, with 48 illustrations
  • Published in 2020
  • Shipping Dimensions: 9.0 × 8.8 × 0.4 inches  (22.9 × 22.4 × 1.0 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 0.9 lb (14.4 oz; 408 g)
  • SKU: SKU: SKU010006150
  • ISBN: 9781838660802

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Yayoi Kusama

About the Artist

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, b. 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, 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. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Fausto Gilberti

About the Author/Illustrator

Fausto Gilberti

Fausto Gilberti is a painter and illustrator based in Brescia, Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and has been part of more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. His motivation for writing the books in this artist-biography series is to make contemporary art approachable and enjoyable for his two children.

Phaidon

About the Publisher

Phaidon

Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts. We work with the world's most influential authors to produce innovative books on art, photography, design, architecture, fashion, food, and travel, and illustrated books for children. Phaidon has a long and distinguished history as an art-book publisher with over 1,500 titles in print.

Founded in Vienna in 1923, the founders of the company named it Phaidon in reference to Phaedo, a Greek philosopher and pupil of Socrates, to acknowledge their love of classical culture.

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