To the Wesleyan People; (who attended the meeting) - a footnote to my lecture of January 13th, 1966
New York: Yoko Ono, 1965. 4 legal-sized pages, 8-1/2 x 14 in., printed on rectos only. Evenly toned with a touch of wear to marginal edges. Item #207996
"To the Wesleyan People" is the closest thing to a manifesto of her artistic principles that Ono produced. The lecture/performance that preceded this statement was "Avant-Garde Art in Japan," delivered at the Davison Art Center Gallery at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. ". . . The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind. My works are only to induce music of the mind in people. . . My paintings, which are all instruction paintings (and are meant for others to do), came after collage & assemblage (1915) and happening (1905) came into the art world. . . There is no visual object that does not exist in comparison to or simultaneously with other objects, but these characteristics can be eliminated if you wish. A sunset can go on for days. You can eat up all the clouds in the sky. You can assemble painting with a person in the North Pole over a phone, like playing chess. This painting method derives from as far back as the time of the Second World War when we had no food to eat, and my brother and I exchanged menus in the air . . ." With some small ink corrections to the text made by hand, as in other copies. Rare.
Price: $3,500.00