A major avant-garde figure in graphic design in the 1960s and 70s, Tadanori Yokoo was born in Japan in 1936. Having started out his career in advertising and illustration, he rapidly garnered international recognition. Playing on styles from different eras, he has developed a singular language that adopts graphic elements from classic Japanese culture and Western references alike. Published in 2006 for the Tadanori Yokoo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, this book is a window onto the extraordinary world of his painting, still relatively unknown today. In it we discover highly diverse imagery of combination and accumulation, based on repetition and borrowing.

Photographic portrait by Daido Moriyama, interview of the artist by Takayo Iida, text by Jacqueline Lichtenstein

Tadanori Yokoo
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris, 2006
Hardback, 22 x 28 cm, 156 pages,
120 color photographs
French version and English version
Distribution outside of France: Thames & Hudson, London - New York
ISBN: 978-27427-6054-1
Price: 35 euros