Angura Poster
アングラ演劇ポスター / 1965–1975 / Style / Regional Graphics
Japan's underground theater posters by Yokoo and his peers: ukiyo-e, kitsch and psychedelia colliding in deliberate excess — a revolt against modernism that the world soon discovered.
Ukiyo-e colliding with kitsch / Fluorescent silkscreen / Rising suns and Shōwa imagery détourned / The aesthetics of excess
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Tadanori Yokoo / Terayama's Tenjō Sajiki / Kiyoshi Awazu and the dismantling of Nissenbi