{"title":"Tadanori Yokoo","description":"\u003cp\u003eTadanori Yokoo (b. 1936, Japan) is one of the defining figures of postwar Japanese graphic design. Working from the early 1960s, Yokoo developed a visual language that compressed cinema, theatre, folklore, advertising, violence, eroticism, and postwar Japanese popular culture into densely layered printed fields. His posters and silkscreens from the 1960s and 1970s are among the most significant works in the history of graphic art, held in major collections including MoMA, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYokoo’s work circulated through multiple formats — poster, silkscreen, book cover, postcard, catalogue — each representing a different stage in the public life of an image. Items in this section include original printed matter, postcards, and ephemera in which Yokoo’s work appears as reproduced image, published object, or circulated support.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tadanori-yokoo-the-ballad-to-a-severed-little-finger-postcard-xaravel-1966","title":"TADANORI YOKOO — The Ballad to a Severed Little Finger, Postcard, XARAVEL, 1966","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard after Tadanori Yokoo, \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad to a Severed Little Finger\u003c\/em\u003e, 1966. Published by XARAVEL Co., Ltd., Kyoto, after the Yakuza Shobo Publishers silkscreen. 10.5 × 15 cm. Colour offset on card stock; printed recto; caption and publisher details to verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally produced in the context of Yakuza Shobo, \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad to a Severed Little Finger\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Yokoo’s charged early graphic language: cinema, violence, theatre, folklore, advertising, and postwar Japanese visual culture compressed into a single printed field. The image layers a tattooed male figure, a blue hand, wave forms, portrait medallions, blood-drop motifs, and dense Japanese text into a composition that operates simultaneously as poster, film advertisement, and graphic proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis object is not the 1966 silkscreen. It is its later portable support. The image is reduced, captioned, and redistributed through XARAVEL as postcard — artist, title, publisher, year, size, medium printed to verso. What was once poster-scale becomes mailable, collectible, and administratively legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interest is in the transfer. A major image passes into a minor format. The work moves from exhibition and poster culture into postcard circulation, where authorship, publishing, ownership, and display are quietly reorganised. The postcard does not replace the original; it records another stage of its public life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarce as a Yokoo\/XARAVEL postcard; a strong specialist object within Japanese graphic design, artist postcard, and printed ephemera contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light surface marks, faint age toning, and minor handling wear to verso. Clean image side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"XARAVEL Co., Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53879307174226,"sku":"YOKOO-XARAVEL-PC-1966","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Yokoo_Tandanoir._The_Ballad_to_a_severed_little_finger_postcard._Reproduction_1966_print.jpg?v=1782795905"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/tadanori-yokoo.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}