Meeting the Grandmaster of Japanese Pop-Psych Art

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A talented 24-year-old graphic designer with dreams of becoming a painter, Tadanori Yokoo arrived in Tokyo in 1960, just as the city was erupting into civil disobedience. His timing was perfect: something was in the air; Japan’s youth were feeling disruptive and so was Yokoo. Mixing Andy Warhol’s pop and Peter Max’s psychedelia with traditional Japanese woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e, his commercial work – mainly posters for theatre productions and movie releases –…