Angura Poster

アングラ演劇ポスター / 1965–1975 / Style / Regional Graphics

Yokoo Tadanori and his peers printed the posters for Situation Theatre and Tenjō Sajiki. Ukiyo-e, kitsch and psychedelia collide there in an excess that the world discovered as a revolt against modernism.

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At a glance

Visual cues

  • Ukiyo-e colliding with kitsch
  • Fluorescent silkscreen
  • Rising suns and Shōwa imagery détourned
  • The aesthetics of excess

Best used for

  • Small-theatre and experimental performance bills that must defy respectable style
  • Work quoting Showa-era imagery and stopping a passerby through sheer excess

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Dictionary entry

Type
Mincho, sign lettering and Latin colliding on one surface, alignment broken on purpose
Composition
One image at the center, the surround packed with detail and no white left
Material
Silkscreen including fluorescents, with metallics and spot colors overlaid
Caution
Merely piling quotations turns excess into clutter and buries the title and dates the bill exists to announce.
Further study
Tadanori Yokoo / Terayama's Tenjō Sajiki / Kiyoshi Awazu and the dismantling of Nissenbi

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