Publisher's Synopsis
Artist, illustrator, graphic designer, lmmaker, and art director, Keiichi Tanaami is best known for his psychedelic creations that reach to the farthest corners of the mind. Since the 1960s, he has been composing works on paper, magazine covers, and phantasmagoric large-scale paintings as a response to his traumatic experience of living through the United States' atomic attack on Japan during World War II. He's since made a mark on the world, exhibiting across the globe. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yokohama Museum of Art, M+, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, among others. Tanaami's work is marked by an unexpectedly harmonic blend of eroticism, surrealism, psychedelia, and American comic art, combined with pointed discourse on politics, consumerism, and pop culture. Althought he has been memorialized in print form within a number of smaller, themed publications, this book is the rst English language artist retrospective, a long awaited and highly anticipated volume. This exceptional publication, printed on multiple papers, is divided into ve modules, each opened by a background introduction to the key themes of the artist's work-Eros, Underground, Pop, Tradition, and Landscape-oering a new, exhilarating lens to see the legendary artist's work through.
