TADANORI YOKOO / The Complete Tadanori Yokoo

Tadanori Yokoo
The Complete Tadanori Yokoo, 1977
Softcover in the publisher's illustrated slipcase, 320 pages
21.8 x 15.2cm
Barron's Educational Series, New York

Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear and handling commensurate with age. Internally clean with a sound binding. Complete with the publisher's original illustrated slipcase, showing light wear.

First published by Kodansha in Japan in 1971, The Complete Tadanori Yokoo remains one of the defining publications of post-war Japanese graphic design. This first American edition, published by Barron's in 1977, made Yokoo's groundbreaking work accessible to an international audience and has since become a highly collectible edition in its own right.

Designed and edited by Yokoo himself, the book brings together hundreds of posters, advertisements, record covers, book jackets, illustrations and photographs that established him as one of Japan's most influential visual artists. Blending psychedelia, Pop Art, traditional Japanese imagery and political iconography, Yokoo's work captured the radical cultural shifts of post-war Japan while profoundly influencing generations of artists, designers and musicians around the world. Long out of print and increasingly sought after, this remains an essential monograph on the artist and a cornerstone of Japanese graphic design publishing.