pick#CoverLove Day 3: #Dots can only mean Yayoi Kusama. Fats reviewed this picturebook biography a few years back - and she included photos from Kusama‘s exhibit in Cleveland Ohio where she lives. 🔴⚫️🔵⚪️ Her feature here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j8e
pickLoved it 🔴 Kusama‘s story is so fascinating 🔴 Her art provoking🔴 Elisa Macellari‘s graphic novel, a treat🔴
pickWhat an amazing life this Japanese artist has lived! The majority of this biography covers the period when she worked & gained recognition for her unusual art as a young woman in New York City in the mid-20th century. In spite of mental health challenges & the conservative pressures of Japanese society, Kusama has followed her own path to greatness. Clean line multicolour #comics art by Elisa Macellari. #Translation from Italian by Edward Fortes.
In case you were wondering, this comics format biography is not intended for a younger audience. Kusama‘s “happenings” are documented here, described by the artist as “orgies of nudity, love, sex & beauty for adults over 21.”
Yayoi Kusama has experienced psychotic episodes since childhood. Her mother called her useless and destroyed her artwork. It‘s amazing what Kusama has accomplished.
Referring to herself, Kusama says: “It‘s like driving down an endless highway, and it will be like that as long as I live.” There are no diversions or alternate exits, just a long road built of dedication and determination: painful by moments, but less so than a life without art.
pick#LiteraryLuck Day 29: Fats reviewed this picturebook biography of a woman who has captured the #Infinite in her art. Accdg to Fats: “This beautifully curated book is an homage to an artist who could not be bound, whose passion is as limitless as her dots, and who, at 89, continues to make awe-inspiring art.” Her full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-j8e #WomenReadWomen2019
I wanted this so bad!
