A Contemporary issue of Juxtapoz Art and Culture magazine, September 2009, no. 104. The cover presents a painting by Yoshimoto Nara, Japanese, born in 1959. The magazine is signed by the artist on page 49. The page also features an ink painting by Yoshimoto Nara, depicting a sitting doll like child. Juxtapoz is a quarterly art magazine established in 1994. Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist, known for Mod child figurative, animals. Yoshimoto Nara was born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan and has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as Japan and European countries. Using a style combining the effect of Japanese prints and Pop Art cartoons, he paints solitary, doll like children to comment upon the decline of society, East and West. To Nara, children symbolize a world marked by confusion and anxiety about an unknown future. Since 1988, he has divided his time between Japan and Germany, where he studied art. He sees himself as a voluntary exile. Because art schools and museums were conservative in Japan, Nara, also a sculptor working in a similarly simplistic style, studied contemporary art on his own there as a young man, eventually seeking exhibitions abroad. One of a kind artwork. Collectible Art Albums And Magazines, Autographs And Memorabilia, Contemporary Art.