Publisher's Synopsis
Yoko Ono has been a key figure in two of the most significant developments in 20th-century art. One is the shattering of the frame - the explosion of the traditional Western notion of the work of art as a unique representational object. The second is the globalization of the avant garde and its transformation by cross fertilization with a variety of non-Western authentic and philosophical perspectives.;Ono was a founding member of Fluxus, a loosely organized artistic collective that served as a bridge between the avant garde of New York and Tokyo in the early 1960s. Her work of this period pioneered the theory and practice of what came to be known as Conceptual art.;This volume includes all 22 of the pieces originally shown at the Sogetsu Gallery in 1962, in Japanese and the artist's own English translation, supplemented by four additional pieces for which the original Japanese texts have been lost.
