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Dewey Decimal Number: 700.92
EAN num: 9780810945876
ISBN number: 0810945878
Label: Harry N. Abrams
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: October 01, 2000
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Y E S Yoko Ono accompanies the very first major museum retrospective of the work of this pioneering avant-garde artist. In her prolific 40-year career, Ono has embraced a wide range of mediums, defying traditional boundaries and creating new forms of artistic expression. This volume is the very first comprehensive art book devoted to her challenging and influential work.
Yoko Ono has created revolutionary forms of music, film, and the visual arts since the 1960s, when she emerged as an avant-garde force in New York, Tokyo, and London. This richly illustrated book includes essays by eminent international scholars and critics that not only explore Ono's life and career, including her contributions to the Fluxus movement and Conceptual art, but also enrich our understanding of her complex role as artist, filmmaker, poet, composer, performance artist, activist, and rock star. An anthology of Ono's writings and an illustrated chronology further mark this book as the most extensive survey ever published on the art and life of Yoko Ono.
The book includes a CD with new music by Yoko Ono, performed by Ono, her son Sean Lennon, and others.
ALEXANDRA MUNROE, director of Japan Society Gallery, New York, and a noted art historian specializing in modern Asian art, organized the accompanying exhibition in consultation with JON HENDRICKS, who has worked as Yoko Ono's curator and archivist since 1989 and is the author of Abrams' acclaimed catalogue raisonn Fluxus Codex.
MURRAY SAYLE is the Japan correspondent for The New Yorker. DAVID A. ROSS is director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. JANN S. WENNER is founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine. JOAN ROTHFUSS is associate curator of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. CHRISSIE ILES is curator, Film and Video, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. KRISTINE STILES is associate professor of art and art history at Duke University in North Carolina.
Includes music CD. 360 illustrations, 102 in full color, 97/8 x 113/4'
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Don't be fooled by the metallic cover: although this extensively documented book finally gives Yoko Ono her due as a protean conceptual and performing artist, YES Yoko Ono is no celebrity bio. It is actually a rigorous analysis--by experts in modern Japanese and contemporary Western art, performance, video, and music--of the innovative approaches that made Ono a seminal avant-garde figure in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and continued to influence her work during the subsequent three decades.
Ono was born in 1933 in Japan to a wealthy and pedigreed family. In her early work, the pan-artistic classical Japanese approach to culture mingles with her Zen-like search for moments of concentrated sensory experience and the anti-heroic stance of the young American artists she would meet in New York upon her arrival (with her very first husband, a composer) in 1956. Also significant was her sense of herself as an outsider. She spent her early childhood in the U.S. with her family, only to be snubbed by Japanese schoolmates on her return.
In Secret Piece, from 1953, Ono wrote a musical score consisting of nothing but two half-notes in the bass line and a scribbled notation: 'With the accompaniment of birds singing at dawn.' It became one of the brilliantly inventive instructions for making art pieces in her 1964 book, Grapefruit, an early conceptual work. Since those heady days, she has continued to explore the possibilities, stumbling sometimes (the inert bronze sculptures of the '80s) but never abandoning her fascination with elemental feeling and observation.
YES Yoko Ono accompanies an exhibition at the Japan Society Gallery in New York (October 18, 2000, through January 14, 2001) that will travel to numerous venues in North America and Asia, beginning with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. --Cathy Curtis
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This is the definitive book on Yoko Ono's art. I originally bought this when it was very first released, and paid the retail value of $60.00 for it, and am very happy to see the discounted rate here at amazon.com!
This book goes through the years that Yoko Ono has been an artist. It was once said, "Yoko is the most famous unfamous artist in the world. Everyone knows who she is, but nobody knows what she does." That does not hold true any longer for people who have read, and will read this book.
The photos in this book are great, and Yoko Ono as an artist is brilliantly portrayed in this informational book!
The price is incredible, and I'm almost thinking of buying a second copy-for safekeeping!
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This book is wonderfully informative about Yoko and her art. If you want to open your mind and stop believing the racist and sexist garbage the media has shoveled out about her (and about any woman who dares be anything but a worshipping dormat for men- especially any Asian woman) this is absolute a must read book. Yoko was the very first Asian woman who dared in the West to publically be a Feminist. She has inspired a whole generation of women in Japan to publically stand up for their rights. She is also an inspiration to many women in the West as well, she was an equal partner in her marriage with John, both their careers were of equal weight. She and John inspired people to stand up and protest for peace, and Yoko continues this activism. She is respected by both Israelis and Palestinians for her peace activism, through her art. She also uses her art to speak out in favor of feminism, In the 80's she also began to do art activism in support of Gay and Lesbian rights. The media critics are finally beginning to open their eyes past the racist and sexist stereotypes Yoko has been the victim of. This book goes a long way toward informing readers of the real Yoko Ono and her amazing range of artistic talent, intelligence and humanitarianism. She will someday be called one of the greatest talents and visionaries of our times. Read this book and find out why.
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I disdain Miss Ono's body of work. Had it not been for John Lennon, she would probably be another burnt-out artist whose mind didn't quite survive the 60's. Let us ask ourselves by what merit ths woman qualifies as an artist either visually or vocally.
Her art is at best simplistic, at worst attempting a movement that had passed by the time she was a few years old. When Duchamp did it, it was innovative. When Miss Ono did it years later, it a lame, drug-laced imitation of early 20th-century masters.
If we must endure widows of rock stars and their art, I sincerely hope the world ends before Courtney Love discovers the Dadaists.
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I was at the SFMOMA to see her YES exhibition, and exactly what I expected, I was overwhelmed with delight... Her art is whimsically amazing. Her music touches your heart and soul. Seeing all the people there that day, I was glad that Yoko is finally getting all the respect she deserves, after all these years... Also caught her live performance at the Los Angeles's Roxy almost 6 years ago just took my breath away. I truly think she's one of the true visionaries of our time.
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In the early 1960s, Yoko Ono established herself as a challenging and often puzzling artist. She worked across the boundaries of media, making impossible to categorize her work in any field. A pioneer in conceptual art, video, and installation, Ono also crossed the boundaries into design with projects that took the form of advertising and designed artifacts. Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks have surveyed the forty years of Ono's career in a richly illustrated book with essays and contributions by many scholars, including Kevin Concannon, Joan Rothfuss, and Kristine Stiles. The superb documentation includes an anthology of Ono's own writings compiled by Jon Hendricks, together with an excellent chronology and bibliography. Ken Friedman. "Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks: Yes Yoko Ono." Book review published in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.
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