Regarded as poetry, thought bombs, metaphysical metrics, and Kodachrome luminescences, a long out-of-print collection of Yoko Ono's synthesis of the Fluxus art movement and the written word is an original work reflecting her restless creative spirit.
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Regarded as poetry, thought bombs, metaphysical metrics, and Kodachrome luminescences, a long out-of-print collection of Yoko Ono's synthesis of the Fluxus art movement and the written word is an original work reflecting her restless creative spirit.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Fine dust jacket. Includes a new introduction. Originally published in 1964/1970. An eclectic mixture of poetic verse, drawings, mock questionnaires, letters, lists, and other idiosyncratic narrative forms. Illus., line drawings. 6th printing of this new edition. Book is fine, free of former owner writing, tiny bumping to bottom edges. The non price clipped DJ is fine. Smaller size book.; 8vo.
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G. Publication page states: Introduction by John Lennon, 1970. First Sphere Books ed 1971. Clean with tanned pages, edge and spine creases, white discoloration on the front and back. Unpaginated. Two drawings in the introduction by John Lennon. Various sections include: Music, Painting, Event, Poetry, Object, Film, Dance, Information, Programs, To The Wesleyan People, Letters.
Publisher:
A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster
Published:
1971
Alibris ID:
16648903489
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Very Good. First edition thus, first Touchstone edition. Signed by Yoko Ono and inscribed to a former owner on the first blank sheet; inscription is a little smudged. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good with creasing to the spine and light general wear to the wraps, light staining to textblock edge.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Yoko Ono on the title page and inscribed, "To Bruce" dated '93. Bound in publisher's white cloth affect lettered in black. Very Good+ with slight crimping to spine ends, light wear and toning to extremities, light dust-soiling to edges. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with chip at crown, light edge wear and rubbing to panels. Faint damp staining mostly visible at verso. The Fluxus artist's first conceptual art book initially published in Japan in 1964.
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First Sphere edition of Ono's seminal piece of conceptual art. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper. The uncommon Sphere edition of Ono's Grapefruit integrates the 'cheeky' subject matter of her 1966 short film Bottoms. Rare and highly sought-after signed by both Ono and Lennon. First published in 1964, Yoko Ono's Grapefruit reads as a set of instructions through which the work of art is completed-either literally or in the imagination of the viewer participant. "Grapefruit is one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960s. [Yoko] has a lyrical, poetic dimension that sets her apart from the other conceptual artists. Her approach to art was only made acceptable when white men like Kosuth and Weiner came in and did virtually the same thing as Yoko, but made them respectable and collectible" (David Bourdon). Ono would enact many of the book's scenarios as performance pieces throughout her career, which formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including the highly publicized retrospective exhibition, This Is Not Here in 1971 at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, that was nearly closed when it was besieged by excited Beatles fans, who broke several of the art pieces.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Hardcover with Jacket; Small square volume; bright yellow DJ has chipping with loss at the spine and top edge; several small closed tears; there is slight rubbing and discoloration to the DJ; book itself has clean and crisp white boards; no marks or writing inside; there is a small crease on the rear free end paper; Additional photos available upon request.
Publisher:
A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster
Published:
1971
Alibris ID:
17761964243
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Near Fine. The first Touchstone paperback edition of Yoko Ono's illustrated book, after the exceedingly rare 1964 first edition, of which only 500 copies were printed in Tokyo. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To Paul, Love Yoko Ono." In just about Fine condition, with only the slightest bit of edgewear and some creasing near the front joint. Internally clean and unmarked. "The original Grapefruit is split into five sections-Music, Painting, Event, Poetry, Object--with each page offering a conceptual direction for work yet to be created...After Ono married John Lennon, Simon & Schuster published a new edition of Grapefruit, though this version included some editorial revisions and additions--the most prominent among the latter being a short foreword authored by Lennon" (The New Yorker). This artist's book earned and has maintained fame as an early example of conceptual art, making her a predecessor to men like Kosuth and Weiner, who popularized the approach. A lovely copy, inscribed mysteriously to "Paul" (we assume not McCartney). Near Fine.
