{"product_id":"yayoi-kusama-explosion-anatomique-manifestation-non-identifiee-centre-pompidou-2019","title":"Yayoi Kusama — Explosion anatomique + Manifestation non identifiée — Pair of Museum Postcards, Éditions Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003ePair of museum postcards\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 15 × 10.5 cm each\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock; black-and-white photographic reproductions to recto, archival and publication details to verso\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Éditions Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019\u003cbr\u003ePhotographs by Harry Shunk and János Kender\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. \u003cem\u003eExplosion anatomique, Pont de Brooklyn, New York, 1968\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white photograph showing Yayoi Kusama alongside nude performers covered in polka dots beneath a large \u003cem\u003eKUSAMA SELF-OBLITERATION\u003c\/em\u003e banner on the Brooklyn Bridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eManifestation non identifiée, New York, 1968\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white photograph depicting two embracing nude performers covered in polka dots beneath an American flag within one of Kusama’s accumulation environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pair reproduces documentary photographs from Kusama’s pivotal New York period of the late 1960s, when her practice moved beyond painting and into public actions, staged demonstrations, and politically charged Happenings. Both images were captured by the important photographic partnership of Harry Shunk and János Kender, whose archive remains one of the primary visual records of postwar avant-garde activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at the height of the Vietnam War and wider countercultural unrest, Kusama’s public actions used nudity, repetition, and spectacle as forms of protest. Her recurring polka dots functioned as more than decoration; they formed part of her idea of \u003cem\u003eSelf-Obliteration\u003c\/em\u003e, a strategy intended to dissolve the boundaries of individual identity through repetition and shared surface. Bodies, objects, and environments become absorbed into a continuous field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Brooklyn Bridge action transforms a recognisable structure into a temporary stage. The \u003cem\u003eManifestation non identifiée\u003c\/em\u003e image moves toward something more psychologically charged — intimacy, nationalism, eroticism, and confrontation compressed into a single frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs objects, the postcards operate as secondary documents of ephemeral actions that originally resisted permanence. Performance disappears; the image remains. The image enters an archive; the archive returns as a printed support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period items. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53548580929874,"sku":"KUSAMA-CP-PC-2019","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kusama_Yayoi._Editions_Pompidou_Paris_postcard._Explosion_anatomique_Pont_de_Brooklyn_1968_._2019_front_63027cc3-fa61-4e6c-8f65-795ec564945a.jpg?v=1779602205","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/yayoi-kusama-explosion-anatomique-manifestation-non-identifiee-centre-pompidou-2019","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}