Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis (Walker Art Center, 2008)

304 pages, 80 color + 80 b/w
9.5 x 6.5 in
Softcover
ISBN: 9780935640922

Edited and with text by Doryun Chong. Text by Mike Kelley, Hiroko Kudo.

"The first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s work includes more than 100 works of diverse media and scale—objects, sculpture, installation, drawing, and painting—covering the entire trajectory of his career, from the late 1950s through the late 1980s. Also featured will be a study room, in which viewers can explore a timeline of the artist’s life and work and examine historical documentation, posters, and ephemera, as well as studies for some of his larger-scale works. Kudo was a rare artist who bridged many disparate artistic tendencies in the latter half of the 20th century—including French Nouveau Realisme, international Fluxus, Pop art, 1960s anti-art tendencies, and 1980s Japanese postmodernism—without specifically belonging to any of them."