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Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry.
CCBC Review:
“My name is Yayoi. I’m an artist and I’d like to tell you my story.” So begins the fictionalized first-person narrative about the life and work of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama who left Japan as a young woman to come to the United States “where artists were doing exciting new things.” Yayoi’s “new thing” was dots. She put them everywhere in her art, and then expanded to “soft, cushioned shapes …which I used to fill rooms, boats, and shoes, and cover couches, armchairs, and hats…” Today she continues to make her daring art and she continues to be a celebrated artist. Gilberti depicts Kusama and her work entirely in black-and-white, and still manages to capture the distinctive nature of the unusual artwork of this singular visionary. ©2021 Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Illustrated by Fausto Gilberti
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-9
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Formats:
Biography, Autobiography and Memoir
Picture book
Subjects:
20th Century
21st Century
Art and Artists
Biography
Girls and Women
Japanese and Japanese Americans
Diversity subject:
Asian
On CCBC Booklist:
Asian in America: Selected Books for PreK-Grade 12 to Support Hmong and Asian American Studies in Wisconsin
Publisher:
Phaidon
Publish Year: 2020
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781838660802
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 709 Gilberti