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Maker(s):Tadanori Yokoo
Culture:Japanese, born 1936
Title:Marilyn Monroe
Date Made:1973
Type:Print
Materials:offset poster
Measurements:sheet: 33 x 23 1/4 in.; 83.82 x 59.055 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2003.92
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
As a graphic designer and artist, Yokoo employs the pop-art strategy of appropriation to highlight the ubiquity of commercialization and westernization of modern-day Japan. At first glance, the work appears to be a poster for a science fiction film. Yet, on closer inspection, the combination of images—from fighting Japanese warriors and the blood-red sea, to burning lotuses and a smiling Marilyn Monroe enshrined at the center—serve as a comment on modern culture. This criticism is highlighted by the Eye of Providence, pictured above center, looking away from what unfolds beneath.

GM, 2019

Tags:
posters; faces; eye; circles; rocks; figures; blood; fires; sky; fighting; animals; light

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