Self-obliteration, 1968.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Self-obliteration, 1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664314302

This flier is one of several announcements made for screenings of Self-Obliteration, a 16mm film produced by Kusama and the filmmaker Jud Yalkut. Both the short and the ephemera relating to it document the summer of Body Festivals that kicked off the most notorious moment of Yayoi Kusama's New York period, when she frequently put naked bodies on display in public places. For this series, Kusama invited parkgoers to be transformed into art by allowing her to paint their stripped-down bodies with her trademark polka dots. Unlike some of the handbills produced for the film, this one (for a screening at nine p.m. Jan 21, 1968) is illustrated, and is quite appropriately almost completely covered by a field of polka dots.

1 flier ; 35.6 x 21.6 cm.

Getty Research Institute

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7957394

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Kusama, Yayoi, 1929-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp1wq9 (person)

Yayoi Kusama (born March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan), Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most i...

Yalkut, Jud, 1938-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md2ccs (person)