Yayoi Kusama: Accumulation No. 1

This volume in the MoMA One on One series focuses on Yayoi Kusama's Accumulation No. 1 (1962), an armchair upholstered with dozens of stuffed phalluses.

In the 1960s, the Japanese-born artist Yayoi Kusama developed her distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art, Feminist art and institutional critique. Accumulation No. 1 (1962) is the first in an ongoing series of presciently feminist sculptures composed of household furniture that she covered with stuffed and hand-sewn canvas phalluses and then painted. Art historian Midori Yamamura examines the work within the larger context of Kusama's famed 'infinity net' motif.