Y E S Yoko Ono

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Don't be fooled by the metallic cover: although this extensively documented book finally gives Yoko Ono her due as a protean conceptual and performing artist, YES Yoko Ono is no celebrity bio. It is actually a rigorous analysis--by experts in modern Japanese and contemporary Western art, performance, video, and music--of the innovative approaches that made Ono a seminal avant-garde figure in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and continued to influence her work during the next three decades.

Ono was born in 1933 in Japan to a wealthy and pedigreed family. In her early work, the pan-artistic classical Japanese approach to culture mingles with her Zen-like search for moments of concentrated sensory experience and the anti-heroic stance of the young American artists she would meet in New York upon her arrival (with her first husband, a composer) in 1956. Also significant was her sense of herself as an outsider. She spent her early childhood in the U.S. with her family, only to be snubbed by Japanese schoolmates on her return.

In Secret Piece, from 1953, Ono wrote a musical score consisting of nothing but two half-notes in the bass line and a scribbled notation: "With the accompaniment of birds singing at dawn." It became one of the brilliantly inventive instructions for making art pieces in her 1964 book, Grapefruit, an early conceptual work. Since those heady days, she has continued to explore the possibilities, stumbling sometimes (the inert bronze sculptures of the '80s) but never abandoning her fascination with elemental feeling and observation.

YES Yoko Ono accompanies an exhibition at the Japan Society Gallery in New York (October 18, 2000, through January 14, 2001) that will travel to numerous venues in North America and Asia, beginning with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. --Cathy Curtis

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Y E S Yoko Ono accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the work of this pioneering avant-garde artist. In her prolific 40-year career, Ono has embraced a wide range of mediums, defying traditional boundaries and creating new forms of artistic expression. This volume is the first comprehensive art book devoted to her challenging and influential work.

Yoko Ono has created revolutionary forms of music, film, and the visual arts since the 1960s, when she emerged as an avant-garde force in New York, Tokyo, and London. This richly illustrated book includes essays by eminent international scholars and critics that not only explore Ono's life and career, including her contributions to the Fluxus movement and Conceptual art, but also enrich our understanding of her complex role as artist, filmmaker, poet, composer, performance artist, activist, and rock star. An anthology of Ono's writings and an illustrated chronology further mark this book as the most extensive survey ever published on the art and life of Yoko Ono.

The book includes a CD with new music by Yoko Ono, performed by Ono, her son Sean Lennon, and others.

ALEXANDRA MUNROE, director of Japan Society Gallery, New York, and a noted art historian specializing in modern Asian art, organized the accompanying exhibition in consultation with JON HENDRICKS, who has worked as Yoko Ono's curator and archivist since 1989 and is the author of Abrams' acclaimed catalogue raisonn Fluxus Codex.

MURRAY SAYLE is the Japan correspondent for The New Yorker. DAVID A. ROSS is director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. JANN S. WENNER is founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine. JOAN ROTHFUSS is associate curator of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. CHRISSIE ILES is curator, Film and Video, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. KRISTINE STILES is associate professor of art and art history at Duke University in North Carolina.

Includes music CD. 360 illustrations, 102 in full color, 97/8 x 113/4"

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DEFINITIVE!!!!.......2005-12-21

This is the definitive book on Yoko Ono's art. I originally bought this when it was first released, and paid the retail value of $60.00 for it, and am very happy to see the discounted rate here at amazon.com!
This book goes through the years that Yoko Ono has been an artist. It was once said, "Yoko is the most famous unfamous artist in the world. Everyone knows who she is, but nobody knows what she does." That does not hold true any longer for people who have read, and will read this book.
The photos in this book are great, and Yoko Ono as an artist is brilliantly portrayed in this informational book!
The price is incredible, and I'm almost thinking of buying a second copy-for safekeeping!

Fantastic book about an amazing artist of our times.......2005-03-16

This book is wonderfully informative about Yoko and her art. If you want to open your mind and stop believing the racist and sexist garbage the media has shoveled out about her (and about any woman who dares be anything but a worshipping dormat for men- especially any Asian woman) this is absolute a must read book. Yoko was the first Asian woman who dared in the West to publically be a Feminist. She has inspired a whole generation of women in Japan to publically stand up for their rights. She is also an inspiration to many women in the West as well, she was an equal partner in her marriage with John, both their careers were of equal weight. She and John inspired people to stand up and protest for peace, and Yoko continues this activism. She is respected by both Israelis and Palestinians for her peace activism, through her art. She also uses her art to speak out in favor of feminism, In the 80's she also began to do art activism in support of Gay and Lesbian rights. The media critics are finally beginning to open their eyes past the racist and sexist stereotypes Yoko has been the victim of. This book goes a long way toward informing readers of the real Yoko Ono and her amazing range of artistic talent, intelligence and humanitarianism. She will someday be called one of the greatest talents and visionaries of our times. Read this book and find out why.

The Sad Facts.......2004-07-19

I disdain Miss Ono's body of work. Had it not been for John Lennon, she would probably be another burnt-out artist whose mind didn't quite survive the 60's. Let us ask ourselves by what merit ths woman qualifies as an artist either visually or vocally.

Her art is at best simplistic, at worst attempting a movement that had passed by the time she was a few years old. When Duchamp did it, it was innovative. When Miss Ono did it years later, it a lame, drug-laced imitation of early 20th-century masters.

If we must endure widows of rock stars and their art, I sincerely hope the world ends before Courtney Love discovers the Dadaists.

YES, YES, YES.......2002-09-21

I was at the SFMOMA to see her YES exhibition, and exactly what I expected, I was overwhelmed with delight... Her art is whimsically amazing. Her music touches your heart and soul. Seeing all the people there that day, I was glad that Yoko is finally getting all the respect she deserves, after all these years... Also caught her live performance at the Los Angeles's Roxy almost 6 years ago just took my breath away. I truly think she's one of the true visionaries of our time.

A challenging artist given her due.......2001-05-08

In the early 1960s, Yoko Ono established herself as a challenging and often puzzling artist. She worked across the boundaries of media, making impossible to categorize her work in any field. A pioneer in conceptual art, video, and installation, Ono also crossed the boundaries into design with projects that took the form of advertising and designed artifacts. Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks have surveyed the forty years of Ono's career in a richly illustrated book with essays and contributions by many scholars, including Kevin Concannon, Joan Rothfuss, and Kristine Stiles. The superb documentation includes an anthology of Ono's own writings compiled by Jon Hendricks, together with an excellent chronology and bibliography. Ken Friedman. "Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks: Yes Yoko Ono." Book review published in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.

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Big Brush Watercolor by Ron Ranson.......2003-01-19

Another book by a modern master, Ron should've called this the "Technique Bible". He keeps no secrets, and shares all knowledge in a very informal and down-to-earth style. Opening one of his books is like greeting an old, dear friend, and this one's no exception.

He details everything, from his choice of a few brushes to what to do with them. Everything for a beginning watercolorist is here, and a few tricks for the intermediate to advanced, also.

A well-written and well-illustrated book.

Nothing New.......1999-09-09

This is that kind of books where you will find the same things you can find in a lot of painting books. How to mix the colours, the paper categories. I thin is a waste of time, and of course of money.

The best of Ranson's how-to books.......1999-06-07

I've had a hardback copy of this book since it came out in 1989 in the UK and have used it a lot. It has a chatty, down-to-earth style, but also contains lots of very basic, useful hints for beginning watercolorists. Even if you don't want to use the hake brush he recommends, you can still learn lots and loosen up your style. One of my favorite books, if not my favorite artist!

Joyfully direct, Ron Ranson has what the beginner needs........1998-06-20

This book delivers the skinny on fast and loose watercolor painting. Ron's fun and direct manner evokes a much needed direction for the beginning and intermediate artist. I particularly enjoy his taste of subject matter and mode of application.

This book enables anyone on earth to paint watercolor........1997-12-14

A word to the wise is sufficient. That's why you don't need those small brushes to express those details in your painting. Paint freely and spiritfully with Ron Ranson is one thing a painter should try. A very good book for innovative painters.

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Big Brush Watercolor
Ron Ranson
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The year is 1945. The Americans attack an uncharted Japanese island that holds a secret scientific base where scientists are working on a new kind of weapon, a giant robot known simply as The Ironman. Jump to the year 1961. A new criminal organization has threatened the governments of the world with an army of mechanical weapons and beasts. The freedom of the world rests on the collective shoulders of an establishment called the International Justice Organization. To meet this threat, in one of the IJO's secret labs, a new weapon for justice is being created, a weapon code-named: Gigantor. But the project is far from completion, and the lab has been infiltrated by a traitor! One of the most famous giant robots of all returns in this bigger-than-big adventure, sure to please old and new fans alike!

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This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema.

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A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one–volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry. With up–to–date additions, this fifth edition features more than 7,000 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:

– Directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers

– Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking

– Motion picture studios and film centers

– Film–related organizations and events

– Industry jargon and technical terms

– Inventions, inventors, and equipment

– Plus, an index of Academy Award winning films and artists, top grossing films, and much more.

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The International Film encyclopedia.......2007-05-14

This 5th edition is like all the ones before a very complete source of information on stars in the movie industie, but also about many others in de film industry.
The best

CINEMA ENCYCLOPEDIA.......2007-05-06

This encyclopedia is a MUST HAVE for those who enjoy films at home or at the theatre.

Hard to beat.......2006-11-28

Without a doubt this is still the best all-around film encyclopedia available to the general public. Actors and actresses, directors, producers, photographers, costume designers, composers, and screenwriters are all included, from the silent era to the present. Each person gets a short biographical entry with a fairly complete listing of all movies they were involved with (these listings can be quite extensive). Movie associations and film terminology are also listed and explained. Individual movies are not listed as separate entries, however. My only quibble with this 5th edition is with the statement on the editor's note page that claims "we continue to keep our word and do not eliminate any of the more than 8,000 entries" - which I assume means from previous editions. Yet in comparing it with the first edition (1979) in just the first 20 pages (out of over 1500) I count a half-dozen or so names that are missing that were included in the first. Perhaps these names were taken out in the 2nd or 3rd editions, but that still makes the claim hard to justify. But this is a minor complaint; this volume should be on every movie lover's shelf.

The Film Encyclopedia 5e....by Ephraim Katz.......2006-11-10

I updated from an earlier edition on this book. I consider this to be an esssential for the movie lover. Not a book with movie reviews, but a (large) volumn of info of all types. Bio's of the stars & performers list all of their films. Many articles on techniques, etc make this a 1 volumn source of info on just about anything movie wise.

My Finger-tip Reference Guide.......2006-11-04

This is the 3rd edition I have purchased, since the info continually changes. It's the most comprehensive guide to information about the movie industry and I will continue to buy each new edition. I highly recommend it to any one who enjoys movie history and trivia.

The Film Encyclopedia 5e : The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of World Cinema In A Single Volume (film Encyclopedia)

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Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!

Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate.(Book Review): An article from: Notes

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Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate.(Book Review): An article from: Notes
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Acid discovers the explosion of LSD culture in the psychedelic sixties from new and controversial angles. David Black investigates the CIA's mind control trials using LSD and the people who turned LSD-tripping into a popular recreational pastime, including the entrepreneurs with links to organized crime. David Black unravels an extraordinary story of double-dealing, intrigue and betrayal as the drug's proponents became over night millionaires-and officialdom turned a blind eye.

Acid: The Secret History of LSD (Vision Investigations)

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The devil is alive on earth in the form of david black
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Acid: The Secret History of LSD (Vision Investigations)
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The true story of double-dealing, intrigue, and betrayal as governments and organized crime used LSD to manipulate youth cultures and radical groups.

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The devil is alive on earth in the form of david black.......2007-02-12

as the grandson of Stark's chemist and son of the man who handed him his kilo of lsd, I must say that by trying to destroy the same culture he critiques by turning idiots against people like me, David Black has here written the true ketamine grimoire, meaning that there was never anything in any part of the known universe, let alone anything there to observe it. he also has destroyed millions of children with ecstasy by suggesting that stark was ever associated with the cia, if stark ever thought he was he truly would/should/will be dead as he was merely an underling. it is interesting to note here that Mr. Black is currently writing a book on socialism, and all of stark's acid was sponsored by the world socialist party. it was the 50's kgb' s acid and this whole cia thing really confused people. I would like to ask all parties involved in destroying my life because of this book to die quickly to avoid sinning any more. That is an ethical action in a time of war. As acid destroys the ketamine and ketamine was named by my chemical company I know what I am talking about it is very very very racist. Amazon will be shut down for taking this review off the internet ...this is the most dangerous book to ever exist. Although tark needed to be told, he did not need this in his life, and neither do I. social history of LSD is ok but its still based on talking to some "cool" "dude" from california, a stupid place some kid made it many many many years later. If you have read this far and have even thought that what those guys did was illegal, it was just illegal for some idiot street cop to find out. David black seems to have been talking to an imaginary federal agent who was involved in the investigation that didn't exist. People voted for nixon because he would allow drugs, still a party line communist, but the same man who ended the republiklan party forever with watergate. Mr. Black should write a book about that, not promoting neofacism like he does.

I will also add that stark's acid was made out of native american grains, the rez was never talked about, neither was the asian or african precursors, orowheat, or anything else for that matter. The book is written on the assumption that Mr. black doesn't know anything, as the name secret implies.
MK-ultra was pure rye, made by lilly pharmacuticals just like owsley and hoffmann, what that swiss idiot did by inventing it out of an enzyme related grain (yes, pure rye sits on you like an enzyme) which is only used in strict ceremony traditionally, kept us from making even more in secret before an idiot like hoffmann came along like he did. . a giant cycling grain composite is totally different.
you have no idea what you are talking about.
david black should have been writing about south pacific sacred plant offerings when the sailors brought the lsd by.
rot in hell devil pig
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More about the shenanigans of a CIA spook than LSD.......2007-02-11

Interesting book that concentrates on a CIA spook named Ron Starks who was the biggest LSD dealer in the world, as well as being linked to operation Gladio which resulted in the murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. Starks actually spent time in an Italian prison on other charges but was mainly being held because of he was suspected of being involved in the whole Operation Gladio/P2 Masonic/CIA lodge false flag terrorism circus. Once the Italian authorities had no legal grounds to hold him any longer he promptly disappeared off the face of the earth after being released. Starks was also linked to various CIA false flag terrorism shenanigans in the middle east also. Although Jewish he could pass as an Arab and was an accomplished linguist that could speak multiple languages. Really this book would probably be of more interest to somebody interested in conspiracy oriented stuff and how CIA spooks operate than a person with an interest in LSD.

Trippy.......2001-11-06

Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas wrote the foreword to this new, updated and US-marketed edition of David Black's 1997 history. The angle on psychedelic history taken by Black that makes the volume unique is an expanded look at the life of Ronald Stark, a transnational doper that helped usher the burgeoning interest in LSD into the hands of the mafia. It also connects it all up to the assassination of Aldo Moro in Italy, and hence to the current political climate (the "strategy of tension", against not just psychedelic libertarians but anyone critical of the status quo. This new edition includes as an appendix "An Open Letter from the Friends of Timothy Leary", circulated after the FBI tried to smear Leary with selected release of FOIPA files, plus another appendix on the "Manson-Stark Conspiracy Theory."

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Odd that anyone else would ever read this

Sci Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine
James Van Hise
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Odd that anyone else would ever read this.......2004-06-15

There are times in life when you are forced to read something, anything, to stave off boredom. Of course, during those times your literary selection rarely includes Ulysses, Remembrance of Things Past, or Naked Lunch. Sometimes it's either read the back of your watch a thousand times and wonder what a base metal bezel is, or read something like Sci Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine. While spending time in my pit of boredom I chose the latter. I don't even watch Sci Fi TV, but at least this book gave me enough information so that someday I might be able to win a game of Trivial Pursuit by knowing the answer to this question: What "Lassie" co-star originally played the mother on "Lost In Space?" Who knows? Well, I do. "June Lockhart," I'll say with a dramatic scream of victory. The book isn't that great, and I kept wondering if Dark Shadows and the 1980's series Beauty and the Beast (with Linda Hamilton, another Trivial Pursuit answer) were really Sci Fi, but it bled away some time. It should really be called Sci Fi and Fantasy TV... or something like that.
So if you like trivia and you want to be a pseudo-expert on something that doesn't interest you in the least, reading the book will take a lot less time than watching the entire "Lost in Space" series. Personally, I'd rather watch old reruns of "Pigs in Space" on the Muppet Show.

Sci Fi TV: From the Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine

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The opinionated guide

Sci Fi TV: From the Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine
James Van Hise
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The opinionated guide.......2000-04-07

The sub-titles to define the essence of the book: authoritative, magnificently, opinionated (stout?). That of "magnificently" something exaggerated, (maybe correct: abundant). The book is a wide itinerary for the first 50 years of the science fiction in the television. They are abundant the anecdotes, bizarre data and rarities, (but, for the beginners). The experts know about these items, but, not of all shows. The chapters are: Introduction, (remembering to Serling Rum, Gene Roddenberry); 1 The world of Sci Fi TV, (from Captain Video to Gerry Anderson and Star Trek); 2 Enter The Twilight Zone, (the highlights and tragedy of Rod Serling and the resurrection of show in the '80); 3 From Inner mind to outer limits, (monsters and make-up in the sixty); 4 Emergency! Lost in space, (the comedy arrives to the science fiction), 5 Where not man. Star Trek, (the show that show the measure); 6 Gothic Soap: Dark Shadows, (the true television epic), 7 Number Six: The Prisioner, (a inusual story could be captative), 8 SF Holocaust: V, ( the epic holocaust to the final resistance, final, final), 9 SF Romance: Beauty [and] Beast [the], (a romantic obsessive novel); 10 The Next Generation of Star Trek, (somebody said: not going to work and work seven years); 11 Taking to Quantum Leap, (another try); 12 To Trek different: Deep Space Nine, (Star Trek after dying Rodenberry), 13 SF Failures: Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica, (the producers and the audience is not the same). In the chapters is interesting the stories of main players and of their characters. Also see like an actor repeat and recycle in different shows.

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Sci Fi TV:From The Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine
Steve Van Hise
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