Can You Imagine?
The Art and Life of Yoko Ono
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A stunning picture book biography in lyrical, poignant prose about Yoko Ono—a brilliant musician and one of the creative minds behind the iconic song “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Yoko Ono has been called many things: Bold. Confrontational. Controversial. Artist. Musician. Witch.
But she has always been, first and foremost, Yoko: a girl who used her imagination to escape the horrors of World War II, and then a woman who used that same gift to find peace after an act of unfathomable violence.
This is a story of a singular soul: an artist, musician, and writer who has always innovated beyond the limits of the accepted, whose brilliance cannot be overshadowed, and whose imagination has been truly revolutionary.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The creators of this artful biography of activist and artist Yoko Ono (b. 1933) underline the life of a person who never loses her sense of self. Growing up in a wealthy, artistic family, Ono felt lonely and misunderstood, but her prodigious imagination brought solace amid displacement, neglect, prejudice, and war. She became a pioneer in performance art, breaking boundaries between artist and audience, described in these pages in frank but approachable terms. Marriage to John Lennon unleashes public vitriol: "People say Yoko's art is strange and her music is not very good," Tolin writes; "Worse, they say she is breaking up the Beatles. They don't even like the way she looks." But Ono "knows how to pick herself up," and keeps making her dreams into art following Lennon's death. Mural-like gouache and watercolor images by Imamura match the text's blend of reportorial and poetic, forming a fitting tribute to an artist who is both unrepentantly idealistic and unmistakably tough-minded. More about Ono and an author's note conclude. Ages 4–8.
