Laurie Anderson

The most up-to-date monograph available on the work of celebrated visual artist, musician, and peace activist Yoko Ono A wide-ranging book on internationally celebrated visual artist, musician, and peace activist Yoko Ono. Born in Tokyo in 1933, Yoko Ono is one of the most important living artists working today. In a career that spans seven decades, she has worked with a broad variety of media, including visual art, music, performance art, and film. Most widely known as the author of the seminal book Grapefruit and for her early involvement with the Fluxus art movement in the mid-1960s, Ono's ground-breaking work has been influential to generations of artists, as has her ongoing campaigning for world peace.

Sometime before the pandemic, Anderson a legendary figure in the worlds of art, performance, and music was in the midst of preparing for two monumental survey exhibitions. Prompted by those tours de force, Anderson gathers in this volume the most important work of her career, including new groundbreaking work that few have seen. Spanning a half century, Anderson writes about the ideas that have guided her work across media. Packaged in a compact paper slipcase, the jacketed flexibound volume features monumental new works alongside significant historical pieces and betrays Anderson as the original multihyphenate artist. From music, video, and performance to room-size installations, sculpture, and painting, she moves easily between traditional and digital techniques and, in the last fifteen years, VR and AI technology. From immersive installations to technological marvels like the tape-bow violin, Anderson s work seamlessly merges innovation with a profound sense of lightness, humor, and humanity. Central to Anderson s artistic imagination is her compelling storytelling. This book, presented entirely in the artist s own words, provides a personal exploration of her work, unveiling how she uses technology and narrative to reflect, decipher, and comment on the roles of technology, language, and politics in American culture.

In response to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros began experimenting with meditation, movement and activism in her compositions. Fascinated by sound and consciousness in daily life, Oliveros developed a series of Sonic Meditations that would lead to Deep Listening – a practice for healing and transformation open to all. Quantum Listening is a manifesto for listening as activism. Through simple yet profound exercises, Oliveros shows how Deep Listening is the foundation for a radically transformed social matrix in we act from compassion and peace. This timely new edition brings Oliveros’ vision together with a new Foreword and Introduction by Laurie Anderson and IONE.

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The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson. Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s. He studied with Chen Tai Chi pioneer Master Ren GuangYi. This book is a comprehensive collection of Reed's writings on Tai Chi. It includes conversations with Reed's fellow musicians, artists, friends, and Tai Chi practitioners, including Julian Schnabel, A. M. Homes, Hal Willner, Mingyur Rinpoche, Eddie Stern, Tony Visconti, and Iggy Pop. The Art of the Straight Line features Reed's unpublished writings on the technique, practice, and purpose of martial arts, as well as essays, observations, and riffs on meditation and life.

Illuminating the photographer’s contributions to New York’s Downtown art scene and her acute feminist work Photographer Marcia Resnick (b. 1950) earned recognition as part of the legendary Downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Her portraits of the era’s major cultural figures, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Belushi, and Susan Sontag, have contributed to the scene’s mythic status. Against this backdrop, Resnick also produced a significant body of work that engaged with the history of art, took a humorous approach to conceptual art and feminism, and proposed new ideas for what photography could be. Spanning the artist’s career, this richly illustrated volume explores Resnick’s early influences and education at Cooper Union and CalArts; discusses her series and photobooks such as See and Re-visions; and situates the artist’s work within the history of contemporary art. An afterword by Laurie Anderson speaks to the very personal vision of Resnick’s photography. Published in association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, and Minneapolis Institute of ArtExhibition Schedule:Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (February 24–June 5, 2022)Minneapolis Institute of Art (August 13–December 11, 2022)George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (February 10–June 18, 2023)

Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an experimental marvel by the Los Angeles Times). Anderson moves seamlessly between the music world and the fine-art world while maintaining her stronghold in both. A true polymath, her interest in new media made her an early pioneer of harnessing technology for artistic purposes long before the technology boom of the last ten years. Regardless of the medium, however, it is exploration of language (and how it seeps into the image) and storytelling that is her metier. A few years ago, Anderson began poring through her extensive archive of nearly forty years of work, which includes scores of documentation, notebooks, and sketchbooks. In the process, she rediscovered important work and looked at well-known projects with a new lens. In this landmark volume, the artist brings together the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date, some of which has never before been seen or published. Spanning drawing, multimedia installations, performance, and new projects using augmented reality, the extensive volume traverses four decades of her ground-breaking art. Each chapter includes commentary written by Anderson herself, offering an intimate understanding of her work through the artist s own words.