Reaching Out With No Hands

"Reaching Out with No Hands" is the first serious, critical, wide-ranging look at Yoko Ono as artist and musician.  From her earliest work with the Fluxus group (especially her relationship with John Cage), through her enigmatic pop happenings (where she met John Lennon) to her experimental films, cryptic books, conceptual art, and her long recording career that has vacillated between avant-garde noise and proto-new wave, Ono has earned the admiration of other artists while generally confusing the public at large, who often see her only in the role of the widow Lennon.  A must-read for art and music fans interested in going beyond the stereotyped observations of Yoko as a Lennon hanger-on or inconsequential avant noisemaker.  Hardcover book, 154 p.