![]() Think about how people automatically believe when something is strange and/or they don’t understand it, that it is by default genius. Be surprised, but not surprised to see it has an average rating of 4+ stars. Then start again because maybe you’ll get it this time. Take that thought back and stop reading again. Decide you believe in fate and that things worked out for the best. Wonder about how things might have been different. Don’t care to figure it out because you can’t translate crazy.įeel bad for John Lennon. Think about the fact that each page probably means something. Then remember you’re not insane.īriefly think about how these instructions aren’t meant to be taken literally, how it’s an expression, a form of art. Then continue reading anyways because it’s assigned. But refuse to continue reading for that reason. Talk about how Yoko broke up the Beatles and killed John Lennon. Read out loud with a coworker at your place of business. Use no less than three different colored pens to do this. Logically prove them false, nonsensical, or even harmful. In most of the notes, draw from your knowledge of physics, astronomy, psychology, sociology, and rationality to deconstruct the instructions. Laugh with a coworker about the word whimsical. ![]() See the word “whimsical” on the back cover. Don’t care you spent too much money because you think this book will make you a better person. Instructions for obtaining, reading, and disposing of Grapefruitīuy this book on amazon with two others for free s&h. In celebration of Ono's 80th birthday in 2013, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt organized a major traveling retrospective. Ono's groundbreaking work greatly influenced the international development of Conceptual art, performance art and experimental film and music. It is an exacting replica of Grapefruit as Ono first envisioned it.īorn in Tokyo in 1933, Yoko Ono moved to New York in the mid-1950s and became a critical link between the American and Japanese avant-gardes. This slipcased paperback is produced from the copy of the 1964 book in The Museum of Modern Art Library. The Museum of Modern Art has now produced a facsimile of that first edition, making it available again in its original form. Today first-edition copies are nearly impossible to find. Since the initial publication of Grapefruit, numerous expanded editions have been produced in many different languages. These works-conceptual instructions-are the culmination of a process that dispensed with the physical and arrived at the idea. Her artist's book Grapefruit, first published in 1964 in Tokyo by Wunternaum Press in an edition of 500 copies, contains more than 150 works divided into five sections: MUSIC, PAINTING, EVENT, POETRY, OBJECT. Yoko Ono is a seminal figure in the development of Conceptual art, performance and Fluxus, as well as film and new music.
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