Grapefruit
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white
  • 14.5 x14 cm.
  • [180] pp.
  • edition size 500
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780870709784

Grapefruit

Yoko Ono

Grapefruit

description

Faithful reprint of Yoko Ono's original 1964 artist's book. "Yoko Ono is a seminal figure in the development of Conceptual art, performance and Fluxus, as well as film and new music. Her artist's book Grapefruit, first published in 1964 in Tokyo by Wunternaum Press in an edition of 500 copies, contains more than 150 works divided into five sections: MUSIC, PAINTING, EVENT, POETRY, OBJECT. These works--conceptual instructions--are the culmination of a process that dispensed with the physical and arrived at the idea. Since the initial publication of Grapefruit, numerous expanded editions have been produced in many different languages. Today first-edition copies are nearly impossible to find. The Museum of Modern Art has now produced a facsimile of that first edition, making it available again in its original form. This slipcased paperback is produced from the copy of the 1964 book in The Museum of Modern Art Library. It is an exacting replica of Grapefruit as Ono first envisioned it." -- publisher's statement. Reprint overseen at MoMA by David Platzker.

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