“It’s nearly 50 years ago that my book of conceptual instructions Grapefruit was first published. In these pages I’m picking up where I left off. After each day of sharing the instructions you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you. I’m just planting the seeds. Have fun.” ―Yoko OnoLegendary avant-garde icon Yoko Ono has inspired generations of artists and performers. In Acorn, she offers enchanting and thought-provoking exercises that open our eyes―and all of our senses―to more creative and mindful ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we cohabit. Throughout this beautifully designed book are 100 black-and-white line drawings by Yoko. Like this legendary woman herself, the book is wildly original, stimulating, and hard to label: Call it purposeful play, call it brain poetry, call it guided motivation, call it Zen-like incantations, call it whatever you want. But read it. Acorn may change the way you experience the world.

Acorn

Yoko Ono

Virago

Imagine John Yoko (Collector's Edition)

Arts & Photography

JOHN LENNON

Music

THAMES HUDSON LTD

John Lennon was not only a musician, he was also an artist of many talents who wrote short stories and nonsense texts, and created drawings and photographs. Though he studied at the Liverpool Art Institiute from 1957 to 1960, it was his music that brought him international fame. In this volume, Lennon's other creative output is published. The book includes his drawings and lithographs, including erotic works from the controversial "Bag One" portfolio, his photographs, lyrics and prose, his record sleeve designs, first editions of his books, and documentary material on the posters and performances.

John Lennon: Drawings, Performance, Film

Wulf Herzogenrath

Jan Wenner

Jorg Helbig

Dorothea Hansen

Ulli Lossel

Biographies & Memoirs

John Lennon: Summer of 1980.

Arts & Literature

Chatto&Windus

John Lennon . . . as much a part of our world today as he ever was
He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of life—including some of the great artists of our day—reminisce about Lennon as a visionary and friend, musician and performer, husband and father, activist and jokester.
In their own words and drawings, poems and photos, Lennon's life from his childhood through the Beatles years to the happiness and tragedy of his final days become stunningly vivid.
Intimate glimpses gathered from musicians who knew John, such as Pete Townshend, Sir Elton John, Billy Preston, and Joan Baez; friends and relatives such as producer David Geffen, publicist Elliot Mintz, and cousin Mike Cadwallader; and artists who followed him such as Bono, Alicia Keys, Steve Earle, Jello Biafra, and Carlos Santana.
And, for the first time, renowned photographer Annie Liebovitz presents every frame of the historic last session with John and Yoko.
Memories of John Lennon is a rich and deeply felt appreciation of a truly great man.

Memories of John Lennon

The History Press

A fully illustrated retrospective look at the long and influential career of a challenging avant-garde artist reviews forty years of Ono's work, including films, music, and Conceptual art, and includes thought-provoking essays from respected scholars and a music CD.

Y E S Yoko Ono

David A. Ross

Jann S. Wenner

Alexandra Munroe

Jon Hendricks

Bruce Altshuler

Kevin C. Concannon

Reiko Tomii

Murray Sayle

Edward M. Gomez

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Contains the complete text of the Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, recorded shortly before Lennon's murder, and includes Lennon's song-by-song analysis of his music

The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon and Yoko Ono: The complete texts plus unpublished conversations and Lennon's song-by-song analysis of his music

David Sheff

Putnam Pub. Group

Book published for the touring Yoko Ono exhibit "Yes" in 2001. Includes a 25-minute CD.

Other Media

Japan Society

"The twentieth century was a century in which human experiment in cruelty reached its height. I have decided to be a cockroach for a day, and see what is happening in this city through its eyes." These words from Yoko Ono, a groundbreaking visionary in the art world for over 50 years, is her manifesto-like description of the thoughts and ideas that went into Odyssey of a Cockroach. This elegant catalogue, with more than 40 color reproductions of the related exhibit, leads its readers through her installation through Ono's exciting narrative.

Odyssey of a Cockroach

Individual Artists

Deitch Projects

Yoko Ono created An Invisible Flower when she was just nineteen years old, at the very start of her artistic career. Recently rediscovered in her archive by her son, Sean Lennon, who also provides a foreword, this jewel of a book tells the heartwarming story of the invisible beauty we all know is there—and of the one man, "Smelty John", who catches sight of it. Written years before Ono met John Lennon, An Invisible Flower offers a glimpse into the early process of a brilliant conceptual artist and, it will transpire, presages the love of her life. Simple pastel drawings complement the book's affirming message, and a new afterword by Ono makes this small treasure even more special.

An Invisible Flower

Chronicle Books+

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