By Young-Ji Cho
Japanese American artist Yayoi Kusama has made a name for herself. Known for her rooms that make you feel like you’re in endless, infinite space. Read about her life from Japan to America, following along as she fights the odds to pursue what she loves most.Read More →
Yayoi Kusama’s monograph explores her impactful six-decade career, highlighting her resilience, artistic evolution, and global recognition through insightful essays and iconic visual works.Read More →
By Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Japan. She is best known for her use of patterns of dots. Hi, Konnichiwa brings together Kusama’s imagery and haunting words with photos of the artist at work and at various stages in her life. Yayoi Kusama was one of the pioneers of Pop Art and performance art. She became a darling of the media, promoting free sex and anti-war activism. Kusama started Kusama Fashion Company, which was quite successful — her clothes sold in stores including Bloomingdales.Read More →
By Hans Christian Andersen and Yayoi Kusama
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1839) is brought to life by Yayoi Kusama. Kusama’s densely patterned, undulating line drawings conjure up storms in the roiling waves of the ocean. Her fertile, repeating forms are an ideal match for the poetic and disturbing universe evoked in the fairy tale.Read More →
By Robert Shore
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and mysterious. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement. Her love and belief in the polka dot has inspired installations and paintings of the last four decades.Read More →
By May Nakamura
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations. In 2006, she became the first Japanese woman to receive the Praemium Imperiale. Today, she is one of the most famous artists in the world.Read More →
By Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging autobiography tells the story of her life and extraordinary career in her own words. Kusama channels her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers. She provides a powerful insight into a unique artistic mind haunted by fears and phobias.Read More →
What goes on inside a paragraph of printed text? Cyrus Highsmith’s Inside Paragraphs is an essential primer on the basics of typography that focuses specifically on the role of printed text within a paragraph. Engaging full-page illustrations and Highsmith’s accessible explanations show the part of white space between letters, words, and lines. Perfect for students and professionals alike, this updated edition includes a new preface.
By Peter Dawson
The Essential Type Directory offers 1,800 examples of the best type design. Includes profiles of some of the most influential typefaces ever created. Organized by type category-Serif, Sans Serif, Display, and Script-each typeface is presented in uppercase and lowercase alphabetical letters.Read More →
By EISELE / NAEGELE / LAILACH
Never-before-published materials from the archives of the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin. Includes work by Bauhaus professor and famous avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy. In Germany in the 1920s, visual communication, typography, and graphic design went through a big change.Read More →