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ISBN-10: 0-7432-0110-8
ISBN-13: 9780743201100
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Year: October 10, 2000
Edition: illustrated edition
Size: 14.22 x 14.48 x 2.79cm
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 295gr
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-7432-0110-8
ISBN-13: 9780743201100
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country:
Year: October 10, 2000
Edition: illustrated edition
Size: 14.22 x 14.48 x 2.79cm
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 295gr
Binding: Hardcover
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Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life.
»Burn this book after you've read it.« –- Yoko
»A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.«
»This is the greatest book I've ever burned.« –- John
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The Pure Breeze Of Genius 
Yoko Ono has one of the most fertile imaginations and artistic sensibilities of our times. It is difficult to descibe how this volume works its way into your psyche other than to say »in most delightful ways«. there is a cloud in sky / with a hole in it / i must leap through the hole / to understand the donut / with the sugar sprinkles on top
Yoko Ono has one of the most fertile imaginations and artistic sensibilities of our times. It is difficult to descibe how this volume works its way into your psyche other than to say »in most delightful ways«. there is a cloud in sky / with a hole in it / i must leap through the hole / to understand the donut / with the sugar sprinkles on top
A Profound Book
A profound book! Yoko Ono is a brilliant poet. She is abstract, yet poignant. It is a great disservice to the public that this book has been out of print for so long.
A profound book! Yoko Ono is a brilliant poet. She is abstract, yet poignant. It is a great disservice to the public that this book has been out of print for so long.
Wacky, funny and something for everyone
Grapefruit has something for everyone, even if you are dead straight. It's nuts and philosophical at the same time … can take your mind far. Love it.
Grapefruit has something for everyone, even if you are dead straight. It's nuts and philosophical at the same time … can take your mind far. Love it.
many different ways to improve one's life in simple and easy to follow instructions
A lot of people focus on the artist over the work of the artist. In this case, I think the work of the artist can teach us a lot about the nature of the artist herself. This book of instructions and drawings is playful and useful for perceiving life outside of the everydayness that we find ourselves sometimes stuck in. If people are so interested in Yoko Ono and critiquing her as a person, what better a window to do so than through one's artwork.
A lot of people focus on the artist over the work of the artist. In this case, I think the work of the artist can teach us a lot about the nature of the artist herself. This book of instructions and drawings is playful and useful for perceiving life outside of the everydayness that we find ourselves sometimes stuck in. If people are so interested in Yoko Ono and critiquing her as a person, what better a window to do so than through one's artwork.
Sublime
What can be said? On the surface, it's obviously the most pretentious twaddle ever hard-bound--- the constant little descriptions of strangely mute actions that she calls »pieces«, each just a couplet long or so, can grate. Why not actually write a real piece of music, or make a painting, you might begin to ask. Well, look closer. Really close. And listen, too. Hear that rustling? That's wit, dry and crisp as bamboo matting under your bare feet. As she guides you through the tiny, many mansions of this curious paper house, familiar incense wafts, a subtle, fragrant empathy for humanity: we who are so frail, so ephemeral, so filled with dreams that long to burst forth like a cache of fireworks. No wonder John loved her. (I freely admit that, as a fan of her music, I am somewhat biased. I was also lucky enough to experience an entire museum full of her films, sculpture, and other art, in Houston, in 2001.)
What can be said? On the surface, it's obviously the most pretentious twaddle ever hard-bound--- the constant little descriptions of strangely mute actions that she calls »pieces«, each just a couplet long or so, can grate. Why not actually write a real piece of music, or make a painting, you might begin to ask. Well, look closer. Really close. And listen, too. Hear that rustling? That's wit, dry and crisp as bamboo matting under your bare feet. As she guides you through the tiny, many mansions of this curious paper house, familiar incense wafts, a subtle, fragrant empathy for humanity: we who are so frail, so ephemeral, so filled with dreams that long to burst forth like a cache of fireworks. No wonder John loved her. (I freely admit that, as a fan of her music, I am somewhat biased. I was also lucky enough to experience an entire museum full of her films, sculpture, and other art, in Houston, in 2001.)
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