Keiichi Tanaami - Collages, 1969-1973

Keiichi Tanaami - Collages, 1969-1973 / small 27-page zine of Tanaami's collages, 5 x 7 inches, produced for a 2015 exhibition / ISBN 9780990469681

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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.