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Lot 400
The Hunchback of Aomori Prefecture. 1967.
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PAI-XCII: Second Chance Posters
ARTIST
TADANORI YOKOO (1936- )
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The Hunchback of Aomori Prefecture. 1967.
Yokoo created this quite haunting image for the performance of The Hunchback in Aomori Prefecture at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo; he also created the stage designs. “In Terayama’s [play], a former servant who was raped by her master and forced to abandon her hunchbacked baby has survived to become the last of the master’s family. Now a grotesque dowager in old-fashioned Western finery, she seeks vengeance by obsessively seducing and tormenting all the young men she meets. Her latest willing, masochistic victim is a hunchback thief, who may or may not be her lost son. A virginal young female narrator-singer also claims the love of the murdered boy—perhaps killed by his own mother in orgiastic, incestuous frenzy or in hatred. Because the town’s family records were stolen to cover up the birth, his identity is unverifiable. The play ends ambiguously, and the truth remains unknown” (Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance, edited by David Jortner, Keiko McDonald, and Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., p. 70). This is a silkscreen print.

Size: 28 3/4 x 40 1/2 in./78 x 102.8 cm
Condition: A. Framed.
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Key Words: Modern; Artist: Yokoo; Theatre