{"id":782,"date":"2009-07-09T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/david_ross_defends_yoko_ono\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:37:23","slug":"david_ross_defends_yoko_ono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/david_ross_defends_yoko_ono.html","title":{"rendered":"David Ross defends Yoko Ono"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to this post<\/a>, David Ross<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n

\n

Kind of a mean-spirited post, Regina. Yoko is an extraordinary
\nartist, and though you seem to object to sincerity, she is a sincere
\npeace activist. Her sincerity seems impossible to you, and perhaps you
\nare more comfortable with the attitude of cynics who inspire apathy and
\na world of Sara Palin supporters. <\/p>\n

But here is a 76 year-old woman who has worked as an outsider all of
\nher life, whose poetic response to life in the late 20th-century is
\nprofoundly moving, and who is interested in making art that reaches
\noutside of the stuffy confines of the art world, and you dismiss it.<\/p>\n

She was “lucky” to marry Lennon? Well, yes you can say anyone who
\nfind the love of their life is lucky, as that relationship transformed
\nher (and him). He was lucky to marry her, as it opened him up in ways
\nhe would have never predicted (or imagined).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I object to sincerity? I love Billy Budd, Prince <\/em>Myshkin, Jesus and John Lennon, sincerity’s fictional and fictionalized emblems, but yes, in real life, sincerity frequently strikes me as the dead zone where the ball won’t bounce. <\/p>\n

Add to sincerity the intolerable aura of one who knows, the wise thing in the cave, the keeper of cryptic secrets, and yes again, my skin crawls, possibly in part because I grew up in California, awash at the time in self-actualizing delusions. <\/p>\n

P.S. David: Sara Palin supporters are sincere. They believe in simplicities with all their hearts, and that’s why there’s no point in talking to them. If we’re going to have delusions, let them be grand delusions with corkscrew twists and frightening depths. A yes at the top of a ladder doesn’t qualify and neither does a billboard telling me that I can end a war by wishing it away.<\/p>\n

Ono is in Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978<\/i><\/a> at the Seattle Art Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to this post, David Ross wrote: Kind of a mean-spirited post, Regina. Yoko is an extraordinary artist, and though you seem to object to sincerity, she is a sincere peace activist. Her sincerity seems impossible to you, and perhaps you are more comfortable with the attitude of cynics who inspire apathy and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}