Yes, Yoko Ono - Ono Yoko
KORTE INHOUD
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 next three decades. nOno 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 first husband, a composer) in 1959. Also significant was her sense of herself as an outsider. She spent her early childhood in the US with her family, only to be snubbed by Japanese schoolmates on ...
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Original blind stamped black cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous illustrations in colour and b/w (including photographs), 4to. [Auteur: Munroe, Alexandra] [Pagina's: 352] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Japan Society/Abrams Publishers] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: YES YOKO ONO]
