Pronounced “yoko-o”
I didn’t know who Tadanori Yokoo was until a few days ago but I’ve had the image of the poster above in my head for years. Last week I found his book Selected Posters 116 when I stopped in at Family and then just happened on the set below at A Journey Around My Skull yesterday.
“Tadanori Yokoo is one of Japan’s most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the “Japanese Andy Warhol” or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo’s complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original.” – Wiki
