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by Lisa Carver
Published by Backbeat Books
156p, b&w, hardcover, 5.5"x7.5"
$18.99
New from Lisa "Rollerderby" Carver:
"John Lennon once described her as “the world's most famous unknown
artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Many
people are aware of her art, and her music has always split crowds,
from her caterwauling earliest work to her later dance numbers, but how
many people have looked at Yoko Ono's decades-spanning career and
varied work in total and asked the simple question, “Is it any good?”
From
her earliest work with the Fluxus group and especially her relationship
with John Cage, through her enigmatic pop happenings (where she met
John Lennon), her experimental films, cryptic books, conceptual art,
and her long recording career that has vacillated between avant-garde
noise and proto-new wave, earning the admiration of other artists while
generally confusing the public at large who often sees her only in the
role of the widow Lennon, Reaching Out with No Hands is the first serious, critical, wide-ranging look at Yoko Ono the artist and musician.
A
must-read for art and music fans interested in going beyond the
stereotyped observations of Yoko as a Lennon hanger-on or
inconsequential avant noisemaker."
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