Keiichi Tanaami

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Artist, illustrator, graphic designer, lmmaker, and art director,Keiichi Tanaami is best known for his psychedelic creationsthat reach to the farthest corners of the mind. Since the 1960s,he has been composing works on paper, magazine covers, andphantasmagoric large-scale paintings as a response to histraumatic experience of living through the United States’atomic attack on Japan during World War II. He’s since made amark on the world, exhibiting across the globe. His work is inthe collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Instituteof Chicago, Yokohama Museum of Art, M+, and the NationalPortrait Gallery in Washington, DC, among others.Tanaami’s work is marked by an unexpectedly harmonic blendof eroticism, surrealism, psychedelia, and American comic art,combined with pointed discourse on politics, consumerism,and pop culture. Althought he has been memorialized in printform within a number of smaller, themed publications, thisbook is the rst English language artist retrospective, a longawaited and highly anticipated volume.This exceptional publication, printed on multiple papers, isdivided into ve modules, each opened by a backgroundintroduction 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.