| LC control no. | nr 91003643 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kusama, Yayoi |
| Variant(s) | 草間弥生 草間彌生 |
| Place of birth | Matsumoto-shi (Japan) |
| Field of activity | Artists Novelists |
| Special note | Artist's birthdate removed from record at her request; DO NOT RESTORE. Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. Non-Latin script references reviewed in NACO CJK Funnel References Project. |
| Found in | Yayoi Kusama, 1989: t.p. (Yayoi Kusama) p. 68 (b. March 22, artist) Yayoi Kusama, viewed May 19, 2014 (Yayoi Kusama, born in Nagano Prefecture. Avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist) <http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/biography/index.html> Wikipedia, May 19, 2014 (Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生 or 弥生); born March 22 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan; artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde) Yayoi Kusama, inventing the singular, 2015: CIP t.p. (Yayoi Kusuma) Information from publisher, Apr. 8, 2015 (author requests that her birthyear be excised from her Library of Congress data) |
| Associated language | jpn |
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