“Before she was known as the queen of colour and pattern, Yayaoi Kusama was obsessed with orgies. Back in the 60s, the Japanese artist… became known for staging theatrical, and often impromptu, ‘body festivals’, where Kusama and her bande à part of free-spirited hippy friends would assemble (and) cover themselves in Kusama’s now-trademark polka dots, before spiralling into orgiastic tangles of paint and limbs. For Kusama, group sex and nudity was synonymous with protest, and her red-and-white polka dots, a weapon against a self-serving society run by the individual.” — Günseli Yalcinkaya, www.dazeddigital.com,
2001 reprint of 1967 tabloid. Color front and back covers, b&w photos inside, plus tongue-in-cheek erotic stories and writings on Kusama’s art. 24 pages. Two copies available, both with minor edge wear; one copy include an extra “centerfold” (duplicate copy of pages 11-14) [J2]
