{"id":5318,"title":"Manhattan Suicide Addict","dimensions":"23.8 x 17 cm, 255 p, language: French, publisher: Dijon: Les presses du réel, ISBN: 2-84066-115-2","date_begin":"2005-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/856","stream_count_app":27,"permalink":"manhattan-suicide-addict","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/660/large/Artistnovel_079.jpg?1342081452","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;The art that grows out of my canvases forms an environment, aspires to build a new stage on our time, involving the audience who suffer from the same obsessions as mine.\u0026#39; Thus wrote Yayoi Kusama in her brilliant faux autobiography, \u003cem\u003eManhattan Suicide Addict\u003c/em\u003e, an account of the years she spent in New York between the late \u0026#39;50s and the late \u0026#39;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 the Pop art, Minimal art and Happenings of the \u0026#39;60s, but has been influential for artists working today. The enduring fascination with Kusama suggests that her obsessions may have been ours as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=447\u0026amp;menu=\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026#39;\u0026#39;De kunst die uit mijn doeken groeit, vormt een omgeving, wil een nieuw podium op onze tijd bouwen, en betrekt het publiek, dat lijdt aan dezelfde obsessies als ik.\u0026#39;\u0026#39; Dat schrijft Yayoi Kusama in haar briljante, valse autobiografie \u003cem\u003eManhattan Suicide Addict\u003c/em\u003e, een verslag van de jaren die ze in New York doorbracht in de late jaren 50 en de late jaren 60. Nadat het verlaten van een benauwd familieleven in het naoorlogse Japan ving voor Kusama een periode van verhoogde creativiteit aan. Het stond haar vrij om te maken wat ze wou, maar ze werd geplaagd door de angst voor intimiteit en onbekwaamheid. Haar kunst werd een soort therapie, en ze ging verder in het maken van een uniek oeuvre dat niet alleen parallellen vertoont met Pop Art, Minimal Art en de happenings van de jaren 60, maar die ook overstijgt, en bovendien van grote invloed is op de huidige kunstenaars. De blijvende fascinatie voor Kusama suggereert dat haar obsessies ook wel de onze zijn geweest.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=447\u0026amp;menu=\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1112,"name":"Yayoi Kusama","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}