First Edition of Yayoi Kusama’s first novel, published in Japan in 1978 and never translated into English, is best described as a faux autobiography, describing Kusama’s years in New York in the 50s and 60s. Having left behind a strict family life in post-war Japan, Kusama entered a period of heightened creativity. She was free to make what she wanted, but plagued by fears of intimacy and inadequacy. Her art became a form of therapy, and she went on to create a unique body of work that not only parallels and transcends Pop art, Minimal art and Happenings of the ’60s, but remains influential today.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Joel Fisher’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 14 April–28 May, 1978.

SM Cat. No 639.

Designed by Total Design.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

First Edition of Yayoi Kusama’s first novel, published in Japan in 1978 and never translated into English, is best described as a faux autobiography, describing Kusama’s years in New York in the 50s and 60s. Having left behind a strict family life in post-war Japan, Kusama entered a period of heightened creativity. She was free to make what she wanted, but plagued by fears of intimacy and inadequacy. Her art became a form of therapy, and she went on to create a unique body of work that not only parallels and transcends Pop art, Minimal art and Happenings of the ’60s, but remains influential today.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prozesse: physikalische, biologische, chemische at Haus an der Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 21 September–22 October, 1978. Including artists: Michael Badura, Monika Baumgartl, George Brecht, Jan Dibbets, Michael Enneper, Hans Haacke, K.H. Hödicke, Peter Hutchinson, Wolf Kahlen, Wolfgang Mally, Nam June Paik, Klaus Rinke, Dieter Roth (Diter Rot), HA Schult, Helmut Schweizer, Timm Ulrichs and Dorothee von Windheim.

Produced on the occasion of B78 La Biennale di Venezia: From Nature to Art From Art to Nature, 1978. Includes artists such as John Davis, Robert Owen, Ketty la Rocca, Domenico Gnoli, Giorgio Griffa, Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Kishio Suga, Ulrich Rückriem, Lucian Fabro and more.

Invitation produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Marcel Broodthaers. plaques/tekeningen/objekten at Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, 21 February–22 March, 1978.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.