Friday, October 30, 2009

Don't Diss Yoko!


If you were looking for a cool poster to hang in yr cubicle at work to fight the grey monotony of things like I eternally am, I think I found the coolest poster available for sale on teh internets.

The text at the bottom reads: "Girl was famous before she met the man whose fame so completely obscured hers. She was part of the first wave of female Japanese artists who struck out for New York to revel in the new Post-War, multicultural, cross-national wave of performance and video art that was taking the world by storm. She ran a gallery out of her apartment that showed the height of avant-garde art, and was an early member of the legendary group Fluxus. She played a key role in the movement towards what we now consider a work of art to be: not just a precious object on a wall, but a total experience that goes beyond painting, sculpture and photography into performance, video, and installation. Her works often present the audience with a moral dilemma; they are beautiful, brilliant, illuminating, weird, and (fair enough) occasionally terrible. Her music is the same. She is epic. Don't dismiss all this because you heard she broke up the Beatles. Face up to the facts! Post-War American culture was uncomfortable with a sexually confident, strange and intriguing Asian woman commanding the cultural spotlight, especially at the height of the Vietnam War. We've got a cultural hangover that won't let us shake off the idea of strong women as sirens who drain mens virility. Say: Don't Diss Yoko! Say thanks for making the world a more interesting place. Long Live Yoko!"

I will tell you where you can find this amazing poster if you buy me one, as well. :D Or you can just "use the Google," G.W. style and hook yrself up.

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