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The artist Keiichi Tanaami (b. 1936) has been working in various genres since the 1960s and is one of the leading pop artists of post-war Japan.

This publication is the first comprehensive monograph of his multifaceted work in English. Divided into five chapters - Counterculture, History, Pop, Landscape, and Eros - editor Alessio Ascari explores the full range of Tanaami's psychedelic and imaginative blend of surrealism, eroticism, and pop culture in more than 250 pages. While the focus is on Keiichi Tanaami's art, each chapter includes a short written introduction by Ascari, an essay by Carlo McCormick, and an interview between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tanaami.

“Artist, illustrator, graphic designer, filmmaker, 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.”
― from the publisher’s description