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Artists Paint Toyama - 100 Landscapes by 100 Artists
1983 · Offset lithograph
40 1/2 x 28 5/8" (102.9 x 72.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Kazumasa Nagai
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11
Works in Collection
23
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2
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Recent Japanese Posters from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990
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Kazumasa Nagai is a Japanese graphic designer and typographer whose practice synthesizes Western modernist principles with Japanese formal sensibilities. Working across typography, photography, and color theory, he shaped the visual language of postwar Japanese design through editorial work, corporate identity systems, and posters that established a distinctive approach to information hierarchy and spatial composition. His work emerged during Japan's rapid visual modernization in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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