Tadanori Yokoo - Henri Yokoo Usso

Tadanori Yokoo - Henri Yokoo Usso / ISBN 9784336075482 / 162-page hardback, 9.5 x 12.25 inches / published recently by Kokushokankokai

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Tadanori Yokoo is a prolific graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, and painter whose signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world. Yokoo’s engagement with the art of the French painter Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) began back in the 1960s, when he was in his thirties. The post-war revival of the “Rousseau craze” in Japan led him to produce an initial series of five Rosseau-inspired works, commissioned by a magazine. Over the years, Yokoo has added to his homage to the post-impressionist painter with paintings that evoke both humour and dread in equal measure.