Saiki, Maggie K. "Tadanori Yokoo: Mother Nature's Son" Graphics. No. 315 (May/June '98) 66-79. Maggie Saiki introduced Tadanori Yokoo, an avant-garde illustrator, in order to discuss the way this artist's designs represented an inner world through which he hoped to gain an understanding of the cosmos. He was invited to be a guest at underground postwar art movements during the 1960s, such as the High Red Center in Japan. The author contrasts her interpretation of Japanese culture and art to that art of the West during that time. Through this quick glance of Yokoo's life, the author illustrated artist's quest to find a balance between art and design. Saiki was able to express Yokoo's goal, as a postwar artist, to express, not evade, the culture of his native Japan. The author capitalized on the importance of originality of ideas, and creativity. Although the author illustrated the Japanese fear of globalization(Americanization), and its affects on Japanese traditions and identity, Yokoo recognized that in order to be a part of the modern world, it would be necessary to mix the old Japan with the new. However, the author follows this point by emphasizing that in moving towards moderization, one shouldn't forget the idea behind the art. This piece of writing, although choppy in some areas, is a great example of the impact of Tadanori Yokoo on the postwar art movement. In conclusion, Saiki described the postwar Japanese artist, Yokoo, as an example of the ways in which art could be used during the long, hard, and painful process of reconstruction to express inner emotions and philosophies in general. Hilary Amoss