{"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\/products\/tadanori-yokoo-the-ballad-to-a-severed-little-finger-postcard-xaravel-1966","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}