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Yoko Ono

    February 18, 1933

    Yoko Ono is an avant-garde artist and musician, known for pushing the boundaries of art and music. Her work is characterized by an experimental approach and unconventional forms of expression. Through her creations, she encourages audiences to reconsider common concepts and perceptions of the world. Her influence extends beyond traditional artistic and musical spheres, leaving a distinctive mark on the avant-garde movement.

    Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono: Between the sky and my head
    Grapefruit
    The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yōko Ono
    Mind Games
    Yoko Ono
    John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band
    • John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band

      In Their Own Words & With Contributions From The People Who Were There

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A definitive, in-depth, revelatory exploration of John Lennon's intensely personal first major solo album after the breakup of the Beatles. Described by Lennon as "the best thing I've ever done," and widely regarded as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by Lennon, Ono, and other members of the band, and packed with previously unseen photographs by those who documented their lives, this incisive volume offers new insights into the raw emotions and open mindset of Lennon after marriage to Ono and the breakup of the Beatles, to the making of the album and revealing interview with Jann Wenner in December 1970. Primal therapy had a huge impact on Lennon's songwriting, resulting in the creation of intensely personal, soul-baring tracks. This book takes his lyrics as a starting point and explores Lennon's life, career, and self-perception, from "performing flea" with the Beatles to authenticity as a solo artist.

      John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band
      4.6
    • Yoko Ono

      Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The Other Rooms" is a sequel to Yoko Ono's "Grapefruit," a now classic artist's book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970. Matching the satisfyingly compact size of "Grapefruit," and beautifully bound in white cloth, "The Other Rooms" is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the artist, "the life of a woman seeing through the eyes of her son." On page after page, or room after room, Ono walks the reader through her unique expression of motherly utopian pedagogy, providing observations and instruction "pieces" such as the following, for "Balance Piece": a) Politicians should wear pink transparent loose robes or pajama-like outfits without the bottoms at all times. b) A priest should wear a bright red suit with one sleeve and bell-bottom pants with his penis exposed at all times. c) The army should wear drag (cocktail party-type flair skirts) and high-heel shoes with jewelry (earrings, etc.) Other sequences simply describe imaginary rooms, and invite the reader to inhabit them, or suggest new approaches to tasks such as gardening, or to one's hometown, all in the serenely open style for which Ono is so famed. "The Other Rooms" is joyfully interactive in this sense, finding ways "to open doors where there are no doors.

      Yoko Ono
      4.3
    • Mind Games

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The definitive exploration--told in revelatory detail--of the writing, recording, and release of John Lennon's celebrated and magical fourth solo album Mind Games, and the era that inspired it.

      Mind Games
      4.3
    • Contains the complete text of the Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, recorded shortly before Lennon's murder, and includes Lennon's song-by-song analysis of his music

      The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yōko Ono
      4.3
    • 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."A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.""Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko Ono"This is the greatest book I've ever burned." -- John Lennon

      Grapefruit
      4.2
    • Yoko Ono: Between the sky and my head

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Yoko Onos großes, weitgehend unbekanntes Zeichnungskonvolut „Franklin Summer“, Inkblot-Arbeiten in stets gleichgroßem Format, von denen Ono seit 1994 mehr als 1.400 Beispiele geschaffen hat, wird mit rund einhundert von der Künstlerin ausgewählten Werken erstmals publiziert. Mit „Vertical Memory“ von 1997 erscheint Onos 21-teilige konzeptuelle Fotografie aus einem verzerrten Gesicht, das ihrem Vater gilt. Mit dem Werk manifestiert Yoko Ono ihre Lebensgeschichte. Drei historische Partituren aus ihrem Künstlerbuch „Grapefruit“ von 1964, es sind „Drinking Piece for Orchestra“, „Bicycle Piece for Orchestra“ und „Painting to Be Slept On“, werden erstmals hier gezeigt.

      Yoko Ono: Between the sky and my head
      4.2
    • Imagine

      John Lennon

      • 255 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      A photographic tribute to John Lennon with quotes from himself and friends.

      Imagine
      4.2
    • Last Interview

      All We are Saying, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

      On the 20th anniversary of his death, a rare, poignant John Lennon document in print and updated.Lennon's last interview before his assassination on December 8, 1980, was first published in "Playbo"y in a 20,000 word format in November that year. It saw limited distribution in the US in its full form as a 200-page book, reflecting 20 hours of tapes made in September 1980, but was never seen elsewhere, and is now a collector's item. This new, revised edition is published with the rare participation of Yoko Ono, and includes a new interview with her. Here John sums it all up: the Beatles, his former partners, his childhood, the seeds of rebellion and artistry, the creation of his music, the relationship with Yoko Ono, politics, sex, passion, peace. Interwoven with the transcripts of the interview sessions is David Scheff's reportage of their encounters, from recording studios to signing autographs for fans on those fateful Dakota Building steps.

      Last Interview
      4.1
    • Skywriting by Word of Mouth

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      A whimsical look into a swift and creative mind, Skywriting By Word of Mouth will remind everyone what John Lennon was really like, and why he is still remembered with so much love. 31 line drawings.

      Skywriting by Word of Mouth
      3.8
    • Yoko Ono. Half a Wind Show

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      On the occasion of Yoko Ono's 80th birthday, this retrospective volume showcases the enormous diversity and reach of her work of the past sixty years.

      Yoko Ono. Half a Wind Show
    • DER WICHTIGSTE COMIC DER WELT entstand aus der Zusammenarbeit eines illustren Teams von über 300 klugen und kreativen Köpfen aus Umweltschutz, Film & Fernsehen, Musik und Comic. Er präsentiert mehr als 120 Geschichten zur Rettung des Planeten. Inspirierende Storys von Stars wie Cara Delevingne oder Peter Gabriel, urkomische Webcomics von War and Peas oder Ricky Gervais, atemberaubende Kunstwerke von wegweisenden Zeichnern wie Alan Moore oder Jeff Lemire, aufrüttelnde Appelle von Umweltaktivisten wie George Monbiot oder Jane Goodall, oder kraftvolle Geschichten von Brian Azzarello und Amy Chu … mit jedem der Comics aus diesem Sammelband werden Projekte unterstützt, die darauf abzielen, einige der Millionen von Arten zu retten, die heute vom Aussterben bedroht sind. Durch den Kauf eines Exemplars dieses Buches können Sie führenden Umweltschützern und Organisationen dabei helfen, den Planeten zu retten und für das Überleben kämpfen, das uns letztendlich alle angeht. Exklusiv für die deutsche Ausgabe: Zusatzstory von Timo Wuerz

      Der wichtigste Comic der Welt. Geschichten zur Rettung des Planeten
      5.0
    • Acorn

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Spätestens seit der sensationellen Retrospektive Half A Wind in der Frankfurter Schirn Galerie im Jahre 2013 (bis Ende Februar 2014 in der Kunsthalle Krems, Österreich) hat sich auch in Deutschland herumgesprochen, dass Yoko Ono eine der einflussreichsten Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts ist und wunderbar leichte, bedeutungsschwere, humorvolle und weise Kunst macht. Yoko Onos Schaffen geht durch alle Kunstkategorien - von Film über Musik bis hin zu Malerei - hindurch und basiert vor allem auf Handlungsinstruktionen, die entweder utopisch oder umsetzbar sind. Selten besteht ihre Kunst aus tatsächlichen Objekten, vielmehr aus poetischen, intelligenten, verrückten und zugleich idealen Ideen. Diese Kunstwerke, die Pieces, vervollständigen sich erst durch die Mitwirkung der LeserInnen, BetrachterInnen oder ZuhörerInnen. Mit Acorn greift Yoko Ono eine Arbeit auf, die sie mit Grapefruit aus dem Jahre 1964 begonnen. Nun legt Ono mit ihrem neuen Buch originelle und inspirierende Instruktionen vor, die unsere Erfahrung von Welt verändern können. Acorn ist illustriert mit 100 Zeichnungen von Ono, von denen viele hier zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht werden.

      Acorn
      3.6
    • Yoko Ono

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      On the occasion of Yoko Ono's 80th birthday, this retrospective volume showcases the enormous diversity and reach of her work of the past sixty years.

      Yoko Ono
    • Erinnerungen an John Lennon

      • 275 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      In persönlichen Beiträgen äussern sich zahlreiche Musiker, Künstler und prominente Wegbegleiter zu Begegnungen mit John Lennon.

      Erinnerungen an John Lennon
    • Mój Nowy Jork

      Słynni Nowojorczycy opowiadają o swoim mieście

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      Mój Nowy Jork
    • Letos uplyne 70 let od narození a 30 let od úmrtí Johna Lennona – muzikanta, umělce, spisovatele, zakladatele a vůdčí osobnosti skupiny The Beatles. Lennon je jednou z významných osobností světové kultury a výrazně se angažoval také v politice. Díky své slávě se stal jednou z nejfotografovanějších postav 20. stol. Fotografie v této knize zachycují mnoho událostí a významných okamžiků Lennonova života – dětství a dospívání, které prožil v Liverpoolu, období slávy s Beatles i seznámení s Yoko Ono a jeho politickou aktivitu. Yoko Ono v předmluvě knihy píše: „Žil svůj sen, který se málokomu podaří uskutečnit. Živil se tím, co uměl nejlépe a co miloval, psal písně… Tato kniha nádherně znázorňuje neuvěřitelný život Johna Lennona. Život v mnoha ohledech kouzelný a překvapivější než představy.“

      John Lennon. Jeho život
      4.2
    • "And, for the first time, renowned photographer Annie Liebovitz presents every frame of the historic last session with John and Yoko."--BOOK JACKET.

      Memories of John Lennon
      3.9
    • Imagine

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Combines photographs from various stages of the rock musician's life with lyrics from his utopian ballad "Imagine"

      Imagine
      3.8
    • The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection: Undervejs

      222 tegninger fra Picasso til Yoko Ono : the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit : Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, 10.08-04.11 2001

      • 180 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      "The show...has been selected from the major collection of Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Detroit, Michigan.... This collection, started in the 1970's and presently containing many hundreds of works, focuses solely on what Mr. Silverman has defined as 'Instruction Drawings' -- works...having the common identifier as being done for the initial proces of a work to be made...rather than drawings made for the sake of being drawings."--P. 6.

      The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection: Undervejs