Lot 76
  • 76

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Estimate
800 - 1,000 USD
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Description

  • U.S.A. Surpasses All the Genocide Records! New York, ca. 1966-1968
  • ink,paper
Offset print (21 3/8 x 35 1/2 in.; 543 x 902 mm). Designed by George Maciunas; printed in red and blue. Edition size unknown. Circular blind stamp to lower right corner reading "Lennon Ono | Certified 1970 - 1974 | Original Gallery Ad." Some light creasing to corners, overall good condition 

Catalogue Note

George Maciunas was a founding member of the avant-garde Fluxus movement of which Yoko Ono was also an integral figure. In a 1963 manifesto, Maciunas defined some of the tenants of that movement, calling upon readers to: "...purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual’, professional & commercialized culture ... PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART, ... promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals ... FUSE the cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united front & action."

"U.S.A. surpasses All The Genocide Records!" was an unsigned product of Implosions Inc., a commercial arm of the Fluxus movement.