Lot 465
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. 1968.
Passed
Est.
$4,000
- $5,000
Live Auction
PAI-XC: Rare Posters
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ARTIST
TADANORI YOKOO (1936- )
Category
Description
Artist: TADANORI YOKOO (1936- )
Size: 28 x 39 1/4 in./71 x 99.5 cm
Condition: A/P. Framed.
Reference: Yokoo, 36; PAI-XXX, 689
Key Words: Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Japanese; Film
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. 1968.
“For his film, ‘Diary of a Shinjuku Thief,’ director Nagisa Oshima chose Tadanori Yokoo for the leading role. Speaking about this in the introduction to ‘The Collected Works of Tadanori Yokoo,’ poet Mutsuro Takahashi writes: ‘Leaving aside for the moment any comment on the film itself, which evoked a clamor of public criticism against its director... I think I can say that for Tadanori it provided the first opportunity to become someone else in a true sense. For some time, he claimed that he had a fondness for dressing up, and it is probably true that he experienced a kind of catharsis by appearing in the film. But as the film itself did not clearly establish the relationship between fact and fiction, so the relationship between Tadanori himself and the hero he was playing was equally vague... The coloring for the poster for his own film tends to be slightly lacking in assertiveness, and this is due to the fact that black was replaced by grey in the final monochrome plate” (Yokoo, p. 9). This is a silkscreen print.
Size: 28 x 39 1/4 in./71 x 99.5 cm
Condition: A/P. Framed.
Reference: Yokoo, 36; PAI-XXX, 689
Key Words: Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Japanese; Film
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. 1968.
“For his film, ‘Diary of a Shinjuku Thief,’ director Nagisa Oshima chose Tadanori Yokoo for the leading role. Speaking about this in the introduction to ‘The Collected Works of Tadanori Yokoo,’ poet Mutsuro Takahashi writes: ‘Leaving aside for the moment any comment on the film itself, which evoked a clamor of public criticism against its director... I think I can say that for Tadanori it provided the first opportunity to become someone else in a true sense. For some time, he claimed that he had a fondness for dressing up, and it is probably true that he experienced a kind of catharsis by appearing in the film. But as the film itself did not clearly establish the relationship between fact and fiction, so the relationship between Tadanori himself and the hero he was playing was equally vague... The coloring for the poster for his own film tends to be slightly lacking in assertiveness, and this is due to the fact that black was replaced by grey in the final monochrome plate” (Yokoo, p. 9). This is a silkscreen print.