YOKO ONO : Buttons (Pinbacks) - Liverpool Biennial 2004

Description

Includes both buttons, like new
Diameter: 1.5"
Writing on edge: "MY MUMMY WAS BEAUTIFUL
©
Y.O. 04"
The Liverpool Biennial 04 began with Liverpool's city centre streets plastered with banners of women's breasts and crotch. The controversial artwork called
My Mummy Was Beautiful
has been created by Yoko Ono and is on display across the city centre and at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
John Lennon's memories of Liverpool were in Yoko Ono's thoughts when she decided how to respond to the invitation to participate in International 04.
The project My Mummy Was Beautiful (2004) consisted of the widespread distribution in the city of two images: of a woman's breast and vagina.
The project can be linked thematically with many earlier works by the artist that present an objectified and dislocated view of the body. For instance, Cut Piece (1964) was a performance in which member of the audience were invited to cut away the artists clothing. A number of her films focus on bodily details, including Film No 4 Bottoms (1966), showing the naked bottoms of people walking. In Celebration of Being Human, realised in 1994 in Langenhagen, Germany, displaced political campaign posters and saturated every advertising site throughout the small town, as well as being distributed through newspaper advertising, postcard, umbrellas and so on.
A key figure in both the Fluxus and Conceptual Art movements of the 1960’s and 1970's, Yoko Ono (b.1933, Tokyo, Japan) continues to work across a broad range of disciplines and media, including music, performance and installation.
Inventory #JH098301