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Yayoi Kusama herself is not a minimalist, but she did have contact with minimal artists such as Donald JUDD and Eva HESSE. Judd praised Kusama's Infinity Net Paintings from the start, especially her obsessional repetition. According to Judd, the new art trend of the 60s were represented by three-dimensional works which were neither paintings nor sculptures. Kusama's Compulsion Furniture was one of them and Judd himself was making such works. On the other hand, Michael FRIED attacked minimal art because Specific Objects, as Judd had called them, had objecthood, and even though one looks at such works which depend on installation, all the viewer can feel is his or her own duration. Then, what kind of time can we experience by appreciating Kusama's works? Comparing Kusama's works with Hesse's ones and so on, the relation of repetition and time is explained in order to describe the originality of Kusama's works.
