Tadanori Yokoo Selected Posters 116

English version printed 2001, a great oversized high quality format of Tadanori Yokoo’s best poster art.   (横尾 忠則, Yokoo Tadanori, born 27 June 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. His practice stands on while tests the border between art and design. In a playful and dazzling signature style, Yokoo manifested frequent engagements with visual and cultural elements from both within Japan and overseas in his work.

Mint copy, oversized 14.5″ x 10″ full page color illustrations, as new, will ship insured within the USA

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amus Arts Press
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4946483624
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-4946483622
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.12 pounds

“It may be expensive (it’s out of print as of this writing) but anyone with an interest in poster art or modern design in general would be thrilled with this collection. Yokoo’s work is a unique vision unto itself and now has many imitators. Few can work with collage and really pull off a beautiful as well as meaningful effect, Yokoo does both. Dealing with subjects both sacred and profane his work is modern, yet it still evokes timeless thoughts and images that have plagued man for an eternity.” -W. Cresswell online review

Biography

Electrified by Pop art and American graphic design, Tadanori Yokoo has always delighted in the violation of visual taboos. Mixing traditional Japanese pictorial methods with Western representational motifs, Yokoo — an illustrator, graphic designer, printmaker, and painter — forges visual relationships among images originally rooted in seemingly disparate worlds.

Yokoo began his career by replicating paintings, designing wrapping paper, and drawing posters for a local Chamber of Commerce. His first major work was a self-titled poster created in 1965 for the Matsuya department store’s Persona exhibition. In a style that anticipates San Francisco’s psychedelic poster art of the late 1960’s, Yokoo depicted an imagined scene from his own funeral. The work’s references to Japan include Mount Fuji, the bullet train, and the rising-sun motif — an emblem of the Japanese Empire that would become an essential element in Yokoo’s repertoire of images.

In the 1970s, inspired by a trip to India, Yokoo incorporated Buddhist iconography into album covers for the Beatles, Carlos Santana, and Cat Stevens. Yokoo later became known for his science-fiction posters and projects for gangster-film director Ken Takakura.
~San Francisco Art Museum

$ 290.00