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Kusama: Cosmic Nature Hardcover – June 22, 2021

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Experience the brilliant artist's lifelong obsession with nature and immersion in gardens, a bedrock of her hugely influential work.

Yayoi Kusama’s work is the product of an infinite curiosity and obsessive drive to create. Throughout the artist’s long and varied career, there is one persistent yet little-studied through line—her deep engagement with nature. From early sketches depicting flowers at her family’s plant nursery in Japan, to her most recent monumental sculptures of botanical forms poised to take flight, Kusama consistently calls our attention to the patterns, connections, and cycles of living things that are not always visible.
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is the accompanying catalogue to the first comprehensive exploration of the artist’s enduring fascination with the natural world, exhibited across the 250-acre landscape of The New York Botanical Garden. The exhibition examines her lifelong awareness and attunement to nature, which serves not merely as a source of inspiration, but is an integral source of power for her artistic language. This profound life force pervades all of Kusama’s work, from studies of the molecular to contemplations of the universal, resulting in a transcendent, cosmic nature.
Exhibition guest curator Mika Yoshitake, an independent scholar specializing in postwar Japanese art, and Joanna L. Groarke, NYBG exhibitions curator, catalogue co-editors, bring together essays by art historians, curators, and a scientist, who each present unique interpretations of Kusama’s engagement with the natural world. Featuring more than 120 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and archival photographs, including stunning views of the works displayed in NYBG’s gardens and galleries, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature offers a new perspective on one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

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Mika Yoshitake is an independent curator, and most recently Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Alexandra Munroe is Senior Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Jenni Sorkin is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Karen Daubmann is Associate Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Engagement at NYBG. Joanna L. Groarke is Director of Public Engagement and Library Exhibitions Curator, NYBG.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli Electa (June 22, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847868397
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847868391
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.8 x 0.78 x 10.7 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #92,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #73 in Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions
- #137 in Individual Artist Monographs
- #178 in Plant & Animal Art (Books)

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Mika Yoshitake, PhD is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. She received her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA, which culminated in the AICA-USA award-winning exhibition and catalogue "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha" (2012), introducing the late 1960s Japanese art movement, Mono-ha (School of Things) into an international context. Previously Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–18), she organized the six-venue North American tour of "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" (2017–19) among other exhibitions. She has been guest curator of "Topologies" (2018) at The Warehouse in Dallas, TX, "Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s" (2019) at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, "Yoshitomo Nara" (2021) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and "KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature" (2021) at the New York Botanical Garden. Yoshitake has published in Artforum, Art in America, Bijutsu Techō, Exposure, and Kaleidoscope and edited/contributed to catalogues on Carl Andre, Takashi Arai, Adam Helms, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Kwon Youngwoo, Lee Ufan, Shana Lutker, Takashi Murakami, Kazumi Nakamura, Yoshitomo Nara, Shōzō Shimamoto, Kishio Suga, Mika Tajima, and Miwa Yanagi.

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My daughter and I attended the Kusama: Cosmic Nature and loved it!!! She is a high school Art teacher and bought for to show her students! She loves the book and it turly brings back our wonderful experience!