中文简介：

草间弥生（Yayoi Kusama）是当代备受推崇和欢迎的艺术家。M+将举办由首席赞助汇丰香港支持的首个特别展览“草间弥生：一九四五年至今”，展期自2022年11月12日至2023年5月14日。

草间弥生是一个真正获得全球赞誉的艺术家。在长达70年的广泛职业生涯中，她通过多种媒体，与世界各地的观众建立了深厚的联系。草间弥生在20世纪中期出现在亚洲艺术实验的前沿，很快成为20世纪60年代纽约艺术界的核心人物。如今，草间弥生继续通过她的艺术来传达她高度个人化和精神上的世界观。

《草间弥生：1945到至今》是全面研究了这位艺术家的作品。该书围绕六个主题展开，“无限”、“积累”、“生物宇宙”、“激进的连接”、“死亡”和“生命的力量”，阐明了艺术家作品的核心美学和哲学问题。

本书精选了草间弥生迄今未发表的文章，以及与乔治亚·奥基夫（Georgia O'keeffe）的通信，对评论家兼策展人吉田芳惠（Yoshie Yoshida）的采访，以及主要策展人和草间弥生专家的圆桌讨论。还包括探索她实践的不同方面的文章，以及关于她生活的详细视觉年表。这本专著不仅吸引了那些已经熟悉草间弥生及其作品的人，也吸引了那些**次发现草间弥生作品的人。它揭示了一位受到国际艺术潮流影响的艺术家，她仍然与她的祖国日本的传统和文化有着深刻的联系。

英文简介：

A major career survey of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most widely admired and popular artists of our time, published in collaboration with M+, Hong Kong, to accompany M+'s first Special Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, from 12 November 2022 to 14 May 2023.

Yayoi Kusama is that rare thing: an artist who has achieved truly global acclaim. In a wide-ranging career spanning seven decades and multiple media, she has established profound connections with audiences around the world. Emerging at the forefront of artistic experimentation in Asia in the mid-20th century, Kusama soon became a central figure in the New York art scene of the 1960s. Today, Kusama continues to communicate her highly personal and spiritual world view through her art.

Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now is the most comprehensive survey of her work to date. Structured around six thematic sections, ‘Infinity', ‘Accumulation', ‘The Biocosmic', ‘Radical Connectivity', ‘Death' and ‘Force of Life', the volume elucidates the aesthetic and philosophical concerns at the heart of the artist's oeuvre.

In addition to a selection of Kusama's writings, some of which have never been published before, the book features correspondence with Georgia O'Keeffe, an interview with critic and curator Yoshie Yoshida, and a roundtable discussion among leading authorities in the field. Also included are curatorial essays exploring different aspects of Kusama's practice, and a detailed visual chronology of her life. Appealing not only to those already familiar with Kusama and her work, but also to anyone discovering it for the first time, this monograph reveals an artist who, while shaped by international artistic currents, remains deeply connected to the traditions and culture of her native Japan.