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2) Yayoi Kusama
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet!""--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity." --
10) Yayoi Kusama
Author
Series
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she returned to Japan and by 1977 had checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital which has remained her home to this...
Author
Publisher
Blue Snake Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A concise yet comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate, with biographies of the great karate masters This first concise yet comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate includes authoritative biographies of the great karate masters of the past and the philosophical issues they faced as karate changed and evolved. Bringing a fresh understanding to the study of the martial arts, Mark I. Cramer dispels many...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Kogi paints the shore of Lake Biwa, but is unable to capture the vigor and beauty that inspire him. One day, Kogi wades into the water to release a fish, and unable to resist follows in its wake, eventually becoming a fish himself, and learning what it is to be a fish in the lake.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Describes the creations of some of Japan's Living National Treasures, artists who are involved in various Japanese arts, including Yuzen dyeing, bamboo basket weaving, Bunraku puppetmaking, swordmaking, Noh theater, and neriage ceramics.
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Yayoi Kusama is one of the most significant contemporary artists at work today. This engaging memoir reveals her to be a fascinating, maverick figure, channeling her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers. The decade Kusama spent in New York saw her status change from poverty-stricken artist living in a freezing loft and existing on scraps of food, to doyenne of the counter-cultural art scene. She tells the story of her...
17) Kusama: infinity
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage. After working as an artist for over six decades, people around the globe are experiencing her installation Infinity Mirrored Rooms in record numbers, even as Kusama continues to create new work every day." --
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming a famous artist. Day and night she painted hundreds of dots onto large canvases. The dots soon came off her pictures and ended up on her dresses, tables, and walls. But she wasn't sorry! An inspiring story about one of the most popular contemporary artists in the world. -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Blank canvas ; 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Akiko has graduated from art school--let the job hunt begin! But finding work is easier said than done. Will she have to return home to Miyazaki empty-handed?"--Provided by publisher.
