"Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms are filled with a multiplicity of lights that reflect endlessly, projecting the illusion of infinite space. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors traces these installations over five decades, revealing the ways in which they developed from a strategy of "self-obliteration" and political liberation during the Vietnam War to a means of social harmony in the present. By examining her early unsettling installations alongside her more recent ethereal atmospheres, this volume aims to historicize her pioneering work amidst today's renewed interest in experiential practices"-- Page 4 of cover.

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors,' organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 23-May 14, 2017." --Verso of Title page. "Exhibition tour: Seattle Art Museum, June 30-September 10, 2017; The Broad, Los Angeles, October 21, 2017-January 10, 2018; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 3-May 27, 2018; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7-October 14, 2018; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 2018-February 2019." --Verso of Title Page.

Foreword /Melissa Chiu -- Acknowledgements / Mika Yoshitake -- Infinity mirrors: -- doors of perception / Mika Yoshitake -- Infinity mirror rooms -- Infinity and nothingness / Alexander Dumbadze -- Between enactment and depiction : -- Yayoi Kusama's spatialized image structures / Gloria Sutton -- A universe of dots : -- an interview with Yoyoi Kusama / Melissa Chiu -- Chronology / Miwako Tezuka -- Annotated bibliography / Alex Jones -- Exhibition Checklist.