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When Yoko Ono was pursuing avant-garde art in New York in the early 1960s, even Western art critics puzzled over her out-there conceptual art. For Asians, who expected women to be chaste and obedient, Ono's strange, brash--sometimes obscene--works were completely alien. No longer. Four decades on, Asia seems ready to embrace the Japanese-born Ono as more than just John Lennon's wife. Last month "Yes Yoko Ono," a 125-piece show of the artist's drawings, sculptures, objects, films and photos of performance art, kicked off an ambitious two-year Asian tour in Seoul. "As an Asian woman, Yoko Ono was too much ahead of her time," says Yoon Sung Hee, a college student studying Ono's…
Source: HighBeam Research, Make Waves, Not War.(Yoko Ono art exhibition)(Critical Essay)