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The Little Mermaid

A Fairy Tale of Infinity and Love Forever


  • D.A.P.
  • Reprint, DAP Publishers
  • by Hans Christian Andersen & Yayoi Kusama
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1839), a story about a girl from the sea who followed her dreams and suffered a disastrous fate on land, is known all over the world (particularly in its animated incarnation). But the familiar story is brought to new life in this gorgeous edition, a collaboration between the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and artist Yayoi Kusama.

ISBN 9788792877598 | EN | HB
€56,95
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Publisher D.A.P.
ISBN 9788792877598
Author(s) Hans Christian Andersen & Yayoi Kusama
Publication date October 2020
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 330 x 203 mm
Illustrations throughout bw.ill.
Pages 96
Language(s) English ed.
Exhibition DAP Publishers
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Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1839), a story about a girl from the sea who followed her dreams and suffered a disastrous fate on land, is known all over the world (particularly in its animated incarnation). But the familiar story is brought to new life in this gorgeous edition, a collaboration between the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and artist Yayoi Kusama.

Paired with Hans Christian Andersen's original text, the densely patterned, undulating line drawings of Kusama's Love Forever series (2004-7) conjure up storms in the roiling waves of the ocean, the Little Mermaid's vast underwater kingdom and her longing to live in the human world. Kusama's fertile, endlessly repeating forms are an ideal match for the poetic and disturbing universe evoked in the fairy tale, the result is a true collaboration. Kusama's drawings both illustrate and interpret Andersen's story, bringing it to terrifying life, and Andersen's words lend narrative content to Kusama's landscapes of unblinking eyes, curling tendrils and disembodied profiles

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