Item #41276 Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966). Yoko ONO.
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).
Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).

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Three advertisements published in ART AND ARTISTS, Volume 1, #7-9 (London: October-December, 1966).

The three advertising spaces, each a quarter-page in size, were given free to Yoko by the magazine’s editor, Mario Amaya, who had earlier invited her to participate in the recent Destruction in Art Symposium (20 photographs of the event, taken by John Prosser, appear in issue #7).

The three works, titled “Fountain Piece”, “Mouthpiece” (design by George Maciunas), and “Do It Yourself Dance Piece” (photo of Yoko asleep by Tony Cox), all trace their lineage to earlier works by Yoko, and all three relate to “Do It Yourself Dance Festival”, a Fluxus work she advertised in the Village Voice in December 1965.

The first work was originally published in “Grapefruit” as part of “Central Park Pond Piece”, and “Mouthpiece”, with its instruction to “Hide Your Mouth At All Times. The Government Should Outlaw Such Indecent Exposure”, was an idea she realised for the catalogue cover for her concurrent exhibition at Indica (item #85).

Also: i) October 1966: El Lissitzky; Asger Jorn (5pp.); Agnes Martin; Christo; Joe Tilson; news of police raid of Jim Dine’s show at the Robert Fraser Gallery; ads. for Signals, Group H at Drian Galleries, and Richard Hamilton at Robert Fraser. Spine slightly worn, o/w Very Good.

ii) November 1966: news includes Yoko’s upcoming “one-lady” show at Indica, and her “Bagwear, a black sack that envelopes the entire body, and into which one is invited to creep as a means of escaping from one’s paranoid moments”, as well as “a journal with the cube-shaped name of the International Times… a with-it paper… circulation of 15,000 is guaranteed in coffee bars, cafes and Earls Court dives”; London exhibition of Hans Bellmer’s illustrations for the works of the Marquis de Sade cancelled, with accompanying 1pp. text by Terry Southern (“In these drawings by Bellmer we see a level of purity that is surely as rare as that achieved by de Sade, Lautréamont, Rimbaud, and William Burroughs”); Gene Baro on “Hamilton’s Guggenheim”; Frank Stella; Tony Cox on the Group H show at the Drian Galleries (“Jeff Nuthall [sic] - England’s answer to Bruce Conner - had a big box stuffed with bloody bedding that was a polished steal at £1,500”); back cover ad. for Claes Oldenburg at the Robert Fraser Gallery. Small chip to lower edge of back cover; wear along spine; o/w Very Good.

iii) December 1966: Special ‘Turned On’ issue, devoted to Light and Kinetic art, with colour front cover photo by Iain Macmillan. Small b/w photo of Hornsey College of Art ‘Sound/Light Workshop’; 4pp. on Group ZERO (Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Gunther Uecker); Mel Bochner on Dan Flavin (4pp); Takis (2pp.) + Indica Gallery ad.; an overview of kinetic art by Frank Popper; and “The Big Turn-On” (2pp.) by Christopher Finch - the psychedelic experience, Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine, with references to LSD, Buddhism and Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Very Good plus.

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