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Kiyoshi Saitō, Shop Girl Cardin Paris, 1960.

Born in 1907 in Japan, Kiyoshi Saito’s career — with its monumental success — complements American stories of pop art for its Cold War cultural lessons. Initially an apprentice sign painter, he turned to woodblock printing: an ancient Chinese method of working with textiles a…