Pattern and Disorder: Anxiety and the Art of Yayoi Kusama

Claremont Colleges
Scholarship @ Claremont
Scripps Senior Theses
Scripps Student Scholarship
2015
Pattern and Disorder: Anxiety and the Art of Yayoi
Kusama
Susanna S. Ferrell
Scripps College
Recommended Citation
Ferrell, Susanna S., "Pattern and Disorder: Anxiety and the Art of Yayoi Kusama" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 554.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/554
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