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Google翻訳
"Manhattan Suicide Attempt Serial Killer," a collection of works by Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, is a unique book in which Kusama, separate from her painting and installation work, depicts the intersection of self and city, madness and hope through words and narrative. Set in 1970s New York, the structure, in which the city's energy and the individual's inner world are illuminated through the protagonist's repeated "suicide attempts," is reminiscent of Kusama's "infinite net" and polka dot motifs, but unfolds in a style where fiction and real experience ambiguously merge. The entire work is enveloped in the strength to affirm oneself in solitude and, paradoxically, the poignant questioning of "living." Starting from the context of avant-garde art, this book approaches the roots of "city" and "self" through the format of a novel, and is a valuable milestone that shows the multifaceted perspective of the artist Yayoi Kusama, and an indispensable work for understanding her world of expression. (Missing dust jacket, cover yellowed and heavily damaged)