Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920-1930s business accompanies his first exhibition at

accompanies his first exhibition at Tate Modern and explores the last decade and a half of his extraordinary career

Additional works by contemporary artists and designers show that political awareness does not limit creativity

leading to disputes and sometimes to legal challenges concerning authenticity

aesthetic and theoretical contexts

Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920-1930s business accompanies his first exhibition atCutting edge works of 1920s and 1930s Japanese design that still excite and inspire. A blossoming cosmopolitan culture pervaded Taisho and Showa era Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, when new Western style establishments like bars, cafs, and boutiques lined city streets. The concept of design as a vehicle to connect people and things found expression in fresh and exuberant forms, and cities teemed with posters and other advertising media. This book