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ARTIST: TADANORI YOKOO (1936- ) SIZE: 29 x 40 1/4 in./73.5 x 102.2 cm DESCRIPTION: “In April 1966, the Japanese author [Yukio Mishima] published a series of essays for young women in the women’s magazine, Josei Jishin. (A series for young men was published in Pocket Panchi Oh!) Paralleling the portrait of the virile Mishima in the upper left, Yokoo has placed the figure of a half-naked woman expressing breast milk at the upper right, perhaps alluding to a scene in a 1956 novel by Mishima, ‘The Temple of the Golden Pavilion,’ in which a woman offers breast milk to a man in a tea bowl. To this gender dynamic, the poster adds references to nation, with the rays of the rising sun, the locomotive’s steam in a shape reminiscent of the Japanese archipelago, lotus flowers, and the woodblock-inspired waves” (Elegance & Extravaganza : Japanese Posters from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, p. 75). This is a silkscreen print. (Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Japanese; Literary)