Book collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art
Growing up in the mountains of Japan, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) dreamed of becoming an artist. One day, she had a vision in which the world and everything in it—the plants, the people, the sky—were covered in polka dots. She began to cover her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and even her body with dots. As she grew up, she traveled all around the world, from Tokyo to Seattle, New York to Venice, and brought her dots with her. Different people saw these dots in different ways—some thought they were tiny, like cells, and others imagined them enormous, like planets. Every year, Kusama sees more of the world, covering it with dots and offering people a way to experience it the way she does.
Written by Sarah Suzuki, a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, and featuring reproductions of Kusama’s instantly recognizable artworks, this colorful book tells the story of an artist whose work will not be complete until her dots cover the world, from here to infinity.
The book has won multiple awards from the Nami Island International Picture Book Concours 2019, Seoul Korea, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and Communication Arts.
Learn more about Yayoi Kusama at David Zwirner Gallery
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The book has received great press and reviews. More below:
Links to articles:
Artsy
Artnet News
Amazon book editors
Its Nice That
I-D Vice Magazine
Dezeen
Creative Boom
"The illustrations evoke Kusama's style remarkably well, and the book is enhanced by high-quality photographs of a variety of her pieces . . . Works for young readers on contemporary non-Western artists are rare, and this visually striking and clearly written, if limited, contribution makes a complex artist's work accessible and appealing."
- Kirkus Reviews
— Kirkus
"Using vibrant colors, Weinstein
echoes Kusama’s spotted perspective on each page, drawing clear parallels to the ways the artist found
inspiration in her surroundings, and incorporating many of Kusama’s famous creations into the book’s
joyfully boisterous scenes."
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