Yoko Ono: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings (1964-) [EN, ES, PT]
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Grapefruit is an artist’s book written by Yoko Ono, originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of “event scores” that replace the physical work of art – the traditional stock-in-trade of artists – with instructions that an individual may, or may not, wish to enact.
Originally published by Wunternaum Press, Tokyo, 1964
English edition
With Introduction by John Lennon
Publisher Simon & Schuster, 1970/2000
S & S Edition
Wikipedia (EN)
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono (English, 1970/2000, 15 MB, updated on 2019-3-20)
Pomelo: Un libro de instrucciones de Yoko Ono (Spanish, trans. Pirí Lugones, 1970)
Grapefruit: O Livro de Instruções e Desenhos de Yoko Ono (Portuguese, trans. Giovanna Viana Martins and Mariana de Matos Moreira Barbosa, 2009)
Nahui Olin: una mujer de los tiempos modernos, 2nd ed (1993) [Spanish]
Filed under book, catalogue | Tags: · activism, art, art history, literature, mexico, painting, poetry
Extensive catalogue of an exhibition of Mexican artist’s model, painter and poet Carmen Mondragón, also known as Nahui Olin (1893-1978). She is considered one of the talented and revolutionary women who formed the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico by activism and creativity, like Guadalupe Marín, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Lupe Vélez and María Izquierdo.
Publisher Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico, 1993
ISBN 9682946697
173 pages
Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol: Screen Tests / A Diary (1967)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · film, photography, poetry
“The 54 stills of Screen Tests/A Diary–which picture actors and poets, socialites and thieves, models, consumers of amphetamine, painters, filmmakers, and musicians–are frame enlargements from short black-and-white silent-film portraits made between 1964 and 1966 by Andy Warhol with the assistance of Gerard Malanga and/or Billy Linich, also known as Billy Name, who lived at the Factory. Each still consists of one or two entire frames from the film footage, and part of either one or two additional frames.” (source).
The stills featuring Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Holzer, Jonas Mekas, Paul Morrissey, Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, and many others, are accompanied by Malanga’s poetry.
Publisher Kulchur Press, New York, 1967
115 pages
Commentary:
Collaboration as Social Exchange: Screen Tests/A Diary by Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol (Reva Wolf, Art Journal, 1993)
Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (Gary Comenas, warholstars.org, 2005)