What Is Grapefruit Conceptual Art
Grapefruit is an artist’s book written by Yoko Ono, originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of “event scores” that replace the physical work of art, the traditional stock-in-trade of artists, with instructions that an individual may, or may not, wish to enact. It’s a book of art, though it doesn’t contain any photographs of Ono’s completed art work. It’s poetry and it’s a collage. Ultimately, it’s a book of instructions, instructions for you, the reader, to create your own conceptual art. Grapefruit is one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960s and still a prominent example of 1960s conceptual art and abstract thought, Ono has a lyrical, poetic dimension that