{"id":25385,"date":"2023-06-10T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25385"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:45:57","slug":"book-review-in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/10\/book-review-in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s difficult to think of an artist more unjustly maligned than Yoko Ono. Whether one appreciates her music or not \u2013 for the record, I very much do<\/em> \u2013 it\u2019s an inescapable fact that in popular culture, she\u2019s often (at best) the punch line to a nasty\/racist\/misogynist joke or (at worst) blamed with \u201cbreaking up the Beatles\u201d or some such nonsense. Happily, in the art world from which she comes, Ms. Ono receives at least some of the respect she so richly deserves.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most well-informed observer\/admirer of Ono\u2019s work (in art, prose, poetry and music) is author Madeline Bocaro. Her new book, In Your Mind: The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono<\/em> seeks to place the artist\u2019s work and life into a proper context. That context considers Ono\u2019s early life in Japan (as the one-time object of affection of a royal figure), her largely unhappy childhood, her first two marriages and her work with the Fluxus art movement in New York City. It\u2019s only after in-depth exploration of those topics that Bocaro even introduces the character of John Lennon.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s as it should be. For too long (and by too many) Ono has been positioned and perceived as \u201cLennon\u2019s wife,\u201d diminishing her own creative forms of expression. Further, much of what she would do from the mid-sixties onward has been viewed from a perspective that considers her a kind of hanger-on accessory to her third husband\u2019s life and career.<\/p>\n

Yoko Ono deserves better, and with In Your Mind<\/em>, Madeline Bocaro gives her that. An unabashed love letter to Yoko, the volume is also both a biography of sorts and a reference book, a key and introduction to Ono\u2019s art. Taken alongside John Robertson\u2019s 1991 The Art & Music of John Lennon<\/i> (which of course has a very different emphasis but remains of value to those interested in Ono\u2019s work from 1967 onward), it\u2019s an essential resource for anyone interested in diving deeper into the infinite \u2013 and infinitely fascinating \u2013 universe of Yoko Ono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s difficult to think of an artist more unjustly maligned than Yoko Ono. Whether one appreciates her music or not \u2013 for the record, I very much do \u2013 it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49,65],"tags":[5160,2417],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-new-release","category-review","tag-madeline-bocaro","tag-yoko-ono","cat-10-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions\/25388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}