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Meeting the Grandmaster of Japanese Pop-Psych Art
In an exclusive feature for the new issue of Another Man, Francesca Gavin sits down with the one and only Tadanori Yokoo, to talk political demonstrations and Marcel Duchamp
TextFrancesca Gavin
Lead Image© Tadanori Yokoo
A talented 24-year-old graphic designer with dreams of becoming a painter, Tadanori Yokoo arrived in Tokyo in 1960, just as the city was erupting into civil disobedience.
His timing was perfect: something was in the air; Japan’s youth were feeling disruptive and so was Yokoo. Mixing Andy Warhol’s pop and Peter Max’s psychedelia with traditional Japanese woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e, his commercial work – mainly posters for theatre productions and movie releases – became crazed visual poems, pieces of pure creative expression that had little to do with the subject matter.
His subversive, autobiographical and playful style (a 1967 poster for the play John Silver features an apology to the di