Fig.16.6(MacKisackfig6)

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TitleChimney Piece

Creator nameOno, Yoko

Creator nationality/cultureJapanese-American

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1964

Object typeOther

LocationReproduced in Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions, rev. ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), n.p.

SubjectsArts--Experimental methodsConceptual art--United States--20th century

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16. “Think, Pig!”: Modernist Art, Psychotherapy, and the Instrumentalization of Imagining

Matthew MacKisack

Modernism, Art, Therapy

There is a particular kind of verbal formulation that is a command to do something, but only in one’s mind: to mentally rehearse an action rather than perform it outwardly. This formulation is what we will call an instruction to imagine.

Author

Matthew MacKisack

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)--United StatesArt therapyPsychoanalysis and artCage, JohnOno, Yōko, 1943-Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989Weiner, Lawrence, 1942-2021Barthes, RolandLeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007

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