Tears of Dreams - Keiichi Tanaami

Name: Tears of Dreams - Keiichi Tanaami
Brand: Nieves and Innen
SKU: Nieves-KT1
Price: 14.95 USD
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Tears of Dreams by Keiichi Tanaami / small 24-page zine of Tanaami's crazy collages, 5.5 x 7.25 inches, from Nieves & Innen

The main image shown here is the inside cover -- the cover itself (and the whole zine) is not very wholesome.

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The kaleidoscopically simmering works of Keiichi Tanaami (*1936) interlink the American comic world, psychedelic nightmares and Japanese culture. The colourful compositions create a cosmos of their own and tell about war and disease in a surprisingly concrete way. As a child during the Second World War the artist experienced the US air attacks on Tokyo and these became important motifs in his art: roaring American bombers, Japanese searchlights, his grandfather’s deformed goldfish.

Keiichi Tanaami is looked upon as the forerunner of Japanese Pop Art and is one of the country’s most influential artists. His career began in the 1960s in the field of tension, typical of the time, between commissioned art and the anti-art movement, experiments with drugs and consumer culture. Under the influence of the Japanese cardboard-theatre “Kamishibai”, American B-movies and in particular Andy Warhol, Tanaami developed a style very much his own.

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