Yoko Ono: An Artful Life
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For more than sixty years, Yoko Ono has fascinated us as one of the world's most innovative and radical artists. From a childhood of both extraordinary privilege and extreme deprivation in war-time Japan, she adopted an outsider's persona, moved to America, and discovered New York's bohemian arts scene. She was established as a performance artist in the Fluxus movement, and already twice divorced, before meeting the Beatles' John Lennon at a London Gallery in 1966. Their intense, headline-grabbing romance, said to have blown-up the Beatles, and resulting in her famous bed-ins and musical collaborations with Lennon, captivated the world. Through it all, and for decades after his tragic death, she remained defiantly herself. ?Yoko Ono: An Artful Life charts her journey of personal turmoil, artistic evolution, and activism, and at last tells her iconic story on her own terms.
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⭐⭐⭐ – LOVE the cover on this one!
I wanted to love this one more than I did. I find Yoko Ono to be such a fascinating woman and was looking forward to diving deeper into her life. Unfortunately, I didn't get the “intimate” feeling I wanted from this story. I found it to be dry and it very much felt like the author was just skimming her life story. It wasn't a terrible book by any means, and there is a lot of history of the times included I found interesting. Perhaps I was a victim of my own expectations.