ONO, Yoko

Born in Japan, she came of age in upper-middle-class America; and though she has returned to Japan for visits and speaks English with a Japanese accent, she has been an American Conceptual artist who gained international celebrity from her 1969 marriage to the pop singer-songwriter John Lennon . Ono's strongest avant-garde works are the performance texts collected in her book Grapefruit (1964). For Beat Piece (1965), the entire instruction is Listen to a heartbeat. Her Cut Piece requires...