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Hop Step Jump

Keiichi Tanaami - Hop Step Jump
29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.
Hop Step Jump brings together portraits of colorful, eccentric figures that interpret "Life and Hereafter", essential truth and source of inspiration to Keiichi Tanaami. Tanaami's vivid and highly surreal drawings are often considered psychedelic. However, a closer look reveals that his drawings go far beyond psychedelic trops. They have their roots in his tense personal recollections: memories, dreams and nightmares.
Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) is looked upon as the forerunner of Japanese Pop Art and is one of the country's most influential artists. Born in Tokyo as the son of a textile wholesaler, he was nine years old when he experienced the bombing of Tokyo towards the end of World War II. He studied at the Musahino Art University, visited Andy Warhol in New York in 1969, worked with both Robert Rauschenberg and art critic Michel Tapié during their travels to Japan, and designed record covers for Jefferson Airplane and The Monkees. He maintained a successful career as an illustrator and a graphic designer throughout the 1960s and early '70s, and was appointed as the first artistic director of the Japanese edition of Playboy magazine in 1975. With an infinite artistic appetite, Tanaami continued to work across all boundaries, embracing painting, sculpture, performance and film, as well as a professor on the Faculty of Information Design at the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Japan.
 
published in October 2011
no text
19,5 x 25,5 cm (softcover)
32 pages (29 color ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-3-905999-02-0
EAN : 9783905999020
 
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