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Das Online-Kunstarchiv ubu.com erhält erfreulichen Zuwachs: Seit neuestem sind dort drei Animationsfilme von Tadanori Yokoo zu sehen, die nichts mit üblichen japanischen Animes, aber, unter anderem, sehr viel zum Beispiel mit der Pop Art eines Roy Liechtenstein zu tun haben.

Aus der englischsprachigen Wikipedia:

Tadanori Yokoo, (pronouced "yoko-oh") born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 60's pop culture he has often been (unfairly) described as the "Japanese Andy Warhol" or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensly autobiographical and entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. In 1981 he unexpectedly "retired" from commercial work and took up painting. His career as a fine artist continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year, but alongside this he remains fully engaged and prolific as a graphic designer.

Hier geht's zu den Filmen.

Eine schön düster-schaurige Animations-Adaption aus dem Jahr 1953 von Edgar Allan Poes Story Das verräterische Herz (hier im Volltext). Der Erzähler, James Mason, erinnert hie und da sogar ein wenig an Vincent Prices Rezitationskunst.

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