Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. They've given us the freedom to con them." --JOHN LENNON...
...more playful than most. A gallery instillation that has you walk down a long dark tunnel to confront a white painting with the words You Are Here neatly lettered in black, certainly is more playful than the Sistine Chapel. (It was done this summer in London by John Lennon and his new mistress.) It is a kind of art that seems to ignore or to have moved beyond moral considerations (which is in part what makes it so infuriating for a criticism which is still involved with moral standards and Matthew Arnolds' How to Live...
...through to reporters or Lords, anyway: "They'd ask joke questions so you'd give joke answers." As John Lennon said. If you can't talk to someone, if your worlds are so far apart that dialogue is meaningless, but some social situation forces you to talk to them why you...put them...
...BEATLE who seems most interesting as presented in Hunter Davies' book is, not surprisingly I suppose, John Lennon. He displays a personality by turns ironic, tender, farcially funny, bitter, nasty, generous, and deeply despairing. His attitude towards the world, towards art, the Beatles, himself, his family, his past is always ambiguous, usually ironic and tinged with a definite sadness...
...Lennon is at times completely cut off from the outside world. He is entirely silent, speaking to no one, not even his wife, for as long as three days at a time. Conversely, he can be violently generous with himself and his money, and wildly exuberant in playing with his mates, the other Beatles. In all, John displays the complexity of character, the difficult emotional life that we associate with the artist...