Yoko Ono - Hatje Cantz

A book with a light gray cover titled Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of Yoko Ono with long, dark hair, wearing a black turtleneck. She looks directly forward while holding a clear glass hammer in her hands.

The book Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, shown at an angle on a white background. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a young Yoko Ono with long dark hair, holding a small transparent hammer.

A close-up shot of the corner of a book, showing its grey spine and cover against a white background. The cover features a black-and-white photo of a person and the title Music of the Mind. The spine lists Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the publisher Hatje Cantz. The book's page block is visible, revealing a light blue page among the white ones.

An open book with a two-page spread of black-and-white photographs. The photos show John Lennon and Yoko Ono, both dressed in white, on a lawn. They are depicted digging a hole with a shovel and kneeling to plant something. One close-up shows a reflective plaque on the grass commemorating the event in May 1968.

An open book displays John and Yoko's WAR IS OVER! peace campaign. The left page shows the poster with its iconic bold, black text. The right page features a black-and-white photograph of the poster on a billboard overlooking a busy city street in the 1960s.

An open book on a white background displays a two-page spread with four color photographs. The images are close-ups of bare human skin with flies resting on a chest, a nipple, a torso, and a hand.

The back cover of a grey book standing against a white background. It features a large block of text in German about the artist Yoko Ono. At the bottom are the logos for the publisher Hatje Cantz and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, along with a barcode and ISBN.

A two-page spread showing the table of contents from a book in German. The left page lists the editors, including Juliet Bingham and Jon Hendricks. The right page lists chapter titles and page numbers, with many entries concerning the artist Yoko Ono, such as Yoko Ono in Tokyo and PEACE is POWER. The layout is clean and minimalist with black sans-serif text on a white background.

A two-page spread from an art publication. On the left, a person with short dark hair in a black jacket writes on a large black-and-white photograph of a person's bare backside, mounted on a white-tiled wall. On the right, a page of German text is titled Vorwort.

A two-page spread from a book. On the left is a typed card by Yoko Ono from 1955, titled Lighting Piece, with the instruction: Light a match and watch till it goes out. On the right is a vertical strip of grainy, black-and-white film stills showing a close-up of a match igniting, from Ono's 1966 film based on the text piece.

A black and white composite image showing three photographs of Yoko Ono performing her conceptual art piece, Lighting Piece. Seated on a stool next to a grand piano on a stage, she is shown in sequence as she strikes a match and calmly watches it burn.

A book spread showing a photograph of Yoko Ono's artwork, Painting to Shake Hands. Against a plain white wall or canvas, a square hole is cut with its corners peeled back. Two hands reach through the opening from opposite sides and clasp in a handshake.

A two-panel, black and white photograph of Yoko Ono's 1964 performance, Cut Piece. In the left image, a close-up shows Ono kneeling with her eyes closed as a man cuts the sleeve of her black top with scissors. The image on the right is a wider shot where another man kneels to cut her skirt, with her clothes now in tatters as she looks toward the viewer.

A two-page book spread. The left page is blank. The right page features six black-and-white photographs documenting Yoko Ono's performance art, Bag Piece, from 1964. The photos by George Maciunas show figures completely concealed beneath a large cloth in various poses on a dark, spotlit floor.

A two-page spread from a book showing four artworks arranged in a grid. Each work is an off-white card with a word or phrase in bold, black, capital letters. Clockwise from the top left, the cards read: RUB, TEAR, TAKE OFF, and PEEL.

A black and white page spread from a book featuring two grainy film stills of Yoko Ono from 1966. On the left, page 108 shows two blurry close-ups of her smiling mouth from Mieko Shiomi's Disappearing Music for Face. On the right, page 109 shows a tight close-up of her eye from her film EYEBLINK.

A page from a book showing two artworks side-by-side. On the left, a black-and-white poster by Yoko Ono has a large empty square with the words ADD COLOUR and an arrow pointing into it. On the right is the artwork Painting to Hammer a Nail, a white board with many nails hammered into it, a hammer resting on top, and a chain dangling from the side.

A black-and-white two-page spread from a book. On the left, page 142, is a full-length photo of Yoko Ono wearing a dark sweater and jeans in a white gallery space. On the right, page 143, is a close-up of her artwork Eternal Time, showing a clock inside a clear box with a stethoscope attached to it, resting on a dark surface. Both pages have German text captions.

A two-page spread from a German book. On the left, the title page for an article by Patrizia Dander reads: Ein Schatten ist eine Erinnerung, followed by the subtitle Sichtbarkeit und Rezeption von Yoko Onos Schaffen in Deutschland 1962–1972. The right page contains the body of the text.

Yoko Ono

Music of the Mind

€ 30.00

€ 48.00

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Edited by: Juliet Bingham, Jon Hendricks , Connor Monahan , Susanne Gaensheimer , Patrizia Dander

March 2024, 304 Pages, 256 Photos

Hardcover

172mm x 240mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5716-4

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Yoko Ono (*1933) is an artist whose radical and innovative work has had a lasting impact on the culture and political activism of our time. This comprehensive and extraordinary catalogue traces the development of a personality whose visionary spirit has transcended boundaries and challenged conventions. MUSIC OF THE MIND explores Yoko Ono's world, presents key moments in her career and reveals the profound influence of her art on the collective consciousness of our time.

Yoko Ono is a pioneer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician and a formidable campaigner for world peace. MUSIC OF THE MIND spans seven decades of the artist's powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to the present day. Conceived in close collaboration with Ono's studio, the exhibition features more than 200 works, including instructions and scores, installations, films, music and photographs, and highlights Ono's radical approach to language, art and participation, which continues to have an impact today.

EXHIBITION
Tate Modern, London
February 15-September 1, 2024
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
September 28, 2024-March 16, 2025