Acorn (book)

2013 artist's book by Yoko Ono

Acorn is an artist's book written by Yoko Ono published in 2013[1] by Algonquin Books as a follow-up to her Grapefruit book of conceptual art.[2] It is ISBN 978-1-939293-23-7 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-939293-24-4 (ebook).

Yoko Ono's Dance Piece III page spread from Acorn

The book gathers together 100 brief thought experiments. Ono illustrates each proposal with pointillist “dot drawings”.

## Background

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Ono created the concept for the book in 1996, when she was experimenting with digital art. It was inspired by a 1969 Fluxus by Plastic Ono Band, a group Ono and John Lennon were members of, in which they had planted acorns at Coventry Cathedral for peace. Subsequently, they mailed other acorns to world leaders with a note: "Enclosed in this package we are sending you two living sculptures — which are acorns — in the hope that you will plant them in your garden and grow two oak-trees for world peace."[3]

## References

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1. ^ Ono, Yoko (2013). Acorn. OR Books. ISBN 978-1-939293-23-7. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013. Note ISBN 978-1-939293-23-7 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-939293-24-4 (ebook), but as of 30 July 2013[update], it is only available directly from the publisher
2. ^ Patricia Reaney (28 July 2013). "From Grapefruit to Acorn: Yoko Ono publishes book of 'instructional poems'". The Independent (UK). Archived from the original on 2013-07-12. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
3. ^ Review of Acorn by David Ulin, LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 25, 2013

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Yoko Ono

* Discography
* Songs

Studio albums|

* Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
* Fly
* Approximately Infinite Universe
* Feeling the Space
* Season of Glass
* It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
* Starpeace
* Rising
* A Story
* Blueprint for a Sunrise
* Between My Head and the Sky
* Yokokimthurston
* Take Me to the Land of Hell
* Warzone

with Lennon|

* Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
* Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
* Wedding Album
* Some Time in New York City
* Double Fantasy
* Milk and Honey

Live albums|

* Live Peace in Toronto 1969 (with The Plastic Ono Band)
* Live Jam (with Plastic Ono Band/The Mothers of Invention)

Compilations|

* Onobox
* Walking on Thin Ice

Remix albums|

* Yes, I'm a Witch
* Open Your Box
* Yes, I'm a Witch Too

Other albums|

* Every Man Has a Woman
* New York Rock
* Don't Stop Me! EP

Singles|

* "Remember Love"
* "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)"
* "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
* "Why"
* "Open Your Box"
* "Touch Me"
* "Mrs. Lennon" / "Midsummer New York"
* "Listen, the Snow Is Falling"
* "Sisters, O Sisters"
* "Now or Never" / "Move on Fast"
* "Death of Samantha" / "Yang Yang"
* "Woman Power"
* "Kiss Kiss Kiss"
* "Beautiful Boys"
* "Walking on Thin Ice"
* "Yes, I'm Your Angel"
* "No, No, No"
* "My Man"
* "Never Say Goodbye"
* "Hell in Paradise"
* "Open Your Box (remixes)"
* "Kiss Kiss Kiss (remixes)"
* "Yang Yang (remixes)"
* "Walking on Thin Ice (remixes)"
* "Hell in Paradise (remixes)"
* "Everyman... Everywoman... (remixes)"
* "You're the One (remixes)"
* "No, No, No (remixes)"
* "Give Peace a Chance (remixes)"
* "I'm Not Getting Enough (remixes)"
* "Give Me Something (remixes)"
* "Wouldnit (I'm a Star) (remixes)"
* "Move on Fast (remixes)"
* "Talking to the Universe (remixes)"
* "She Gets Down on Her Knees (remixes)"
* "I'm Moving On (remixes)"
* "Hold Me"
* "Walking on Thin Ice (remixes)"
* "Angel"
* "Woman Power (remixes)"

Books|

* Grapefruit (1964)
* Acorn (2013)

Films|

* Self-Portrait (1969)
* Apotheosis (1970)
* Fly (1970)
* Freedom (1970)
* Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
* Imagine (1972)

Art|

* Voice Piece for Soprano (1961)
* Cut Piece (1964)
* Apple (1966)
* Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting (1966)
* Half-A-Room (1967)
* Wish Tree (c.1981; ongoing)
* Wish Tree for Washington, DC

Family|

* Toshi Ichiyanagi (first husband)
* Anthony Cox (second husband)
* John Lennon (third husband)
* Sean Lennon (son)
* Yasuda Zenjirō (great-grandfather)

Related|

* Toronto Rock and Roll Revival
* Sweet Toronto
* John and Yoko: A Love Story
* John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
* Bagism
* Bed-in
* "Give Peace a Chance"
* "Imagine"
* Nutopia
* Artists Against Fracking
* LennonOno Grant for Peace
* The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
* Murder of John Lennon
* Imagine Peace Tower
* Courage Award for the Arts
* The Dakota
* Tittenhurst Park

* Category

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Artists' books

Early precursors|

* Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
* Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Expressionism and Cubism|

* Du "Cubisme", Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Edition Figuière, Paris, 1912 (First English edition: Cubism, Unwin, London, 1913)
* The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, Guillaume Apollinaire, published by Eugène Figuière Éditeurs, Collection "Tous les Arts", Paris, 1913
* La Peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme (Painting and its Laws), Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1924 (published in English in 2000)
* Klänge
* La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France

Futurism, Vorticism and Dada|

* Zang Tumb Tumb
* Tango With Cows
* BLAST
* BÏF§ZF+18
* Universal War
* Jedermann sein eigner Fussball
* An Anna Blume
* Russian Ballet

Constructivism, Surrealism
and Modernism|

* Une semaine de bonté
* Jazz

Lettrism, Situationism,
Nouveau réalisme
and Arte Povera|

* Yves Peintures
* Fin de Copenhague
* Mémoires
* Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle
* Linee
* Dimanche

Pop Art|

* 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy
* Twentysix Gasoline Stations
* A Humument

Fluxus and conceptual art|

* Literaturwurst
* Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art
* Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard
* Water Yam
* Grapefruit
* Fluxus 1
* Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard

Artists' books since 1980|

* Colored Sounds
* Die-Cut Plug Wiring Diagram Book
* City as an Artist's Subjectivity

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Fluxus

Fluxus artists|

* Genpei Akasegawa
* Eric Andersen
* Ay-O
* Joseph Beuys
* George Brecht
* Philip Corner
* Robert Filliou
* Ken Friedman
* Al Hansen
* Geoffrey Hendricks
* Dick Higgins
* Joe Jones
* Milan Knížák
* Alison Knowles
* Shigeko Kubota
* George Maciunas
* Larry Miller
* Yoko Ono
* Nam June Paik
* Ben Patterson
* Takako Saito
* Tomas Schmit
* Mieko Shiomi
* Ben Vautier
* Wolf Vostell
* Robert Watts
* Emmett Williams
* La Monte Young

Related artists
and musicians|

* John Cage
* John Cale
* Henry Flynt
* Ray Johnson
* Richard Maxfield
* Charlotte Moorman
* Dieter Roth
* Carolee Schneemann

Flux-works|

* Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard
* Poème symphonique
* Water Yam
* Grapefruit
* Fluxus 1
* Spice Chess

Related articles|

* Anti-art
* Art & Language
* Conceptual art
* Fluxus at Rutgers University
* Intermedia
* Neo-Dada
* Something Else Press

Critics and historians|

* Hannah Higgins

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