Editing Yoko Ono (section)

===''Grapefruit'' book, 1964===
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Ono's small book titled ''[[Grapefruit (book)|Grapefruit]]'' is another seminal piece of conceptual art. First published in 1964, the book reads as a set of instructions through which the work of art is completed-either literally or in the imagination of the viewer participant. One example is "Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies." ''Grapefruit'' has been published several times, most widely distributed by [[Simon & Schuster]] in 1971, who reprinted it again in 2000. [[David Bourdon]], art critic for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', called ''Grapefruit'' "one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960s". He noted that her conceptual approach was made more acceptable when white male artists like [[Joseph Kosuth]] and [[Lawrence Weiner]] came in and "did virtually the same things" she did, and that her take also has a poetic and lyrical side that sets it apart from the work of other conceptual artists.<ref name=Whit/>

Ono would enact many of the book's scenarios as performance pieces throughout her career, which formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including the highly publicized [[retrospective exhibition]], ''This Is Not Here'' in 1971 at the [[Everson Museum]] in [[Syracuse, New York]],<ref name="Grove">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&q=596|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1|publisher=Oxford University Press |editor=Joan M. Marter|first=Kevin|last=Concannon|year=2011|page=596|isbn=978-0195335798|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217203017/https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&q=596#v=snippet&q=596&f=false|archive-date=February 17, 2018}}</ref> that was nearly closed when it was besieged by excited Beatles fans, who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pang|first=May|title=Loving John|publisher=[[Warner Books]] (Paperback)|year=1983|isbn=978-0-446-37916-8}}</ref> It was her last major exhibition until 1989's ''[[Yoko Ono: Objects, Films]]'' retrospective at the Whitney.<ref name=Whit/>

Nearly fifty years later in July 2013, she released a sequel to ''Grapefruit'', another book of instructions, ''Acorn'' via [[OR Books]].<ref name=OR>{{cite book|last=Ono|first=Yoko|title=Acorn|publisher=OR Books|year=2013|isbn=978-1-939293-23-7}}</ref>