Made in USA
- Date:
- 1976
- Medium:
- Silkscreen
- Image courtesy of
- Tolman Collection Tokyo
Produced in 1976, the year of the American bicentennial, this silkscreen directly engages the language of consumer goods labeling and cultural import. The title repurposes the manufacturing stamp found on mass-produced objects, applying it to figural subject matter in a gesture characteristic of Japanese pop art's critique of postwar Americanization. Kuremoto uses silkscreen's capacity for bold graphic flatness and layered color registration to render figures that carry the look of commodities — branded, categorized, distributed. The print participates in a broader current of 1970s Japanese printmaking that interrogated the country's cultural dependency on American imagery while simultaneously adopting American graphic idioms as its formal vocabulary.
Made in USA was created by Toshimatsu Kuremoto (呉本俊松) in 1976.
Made in USA uses Silkscreen, on silkscreen.
Made in USA depicts figures.
