“Covered with Thick Marble”: Uncovering Yoko Ono’s Marble Works from 1961 to 1966

Abstract

Marble is among the least discussed metamorphic disappearances in Yoko Ono ’ s artistic production from the 1960s. Not limestone recrys-tallized but a vanishing material notion visualized, Ono ’ s marble hides within a series of conceptual statements, instruction pieces, and unre-alized fi lms awaiting activation through mental and physical perfor-mance. Together her works evoking marble may be seen as pivotal ele-ments within Ono ’ s revolutionary contribution to the dematerialization of the art object. Exploring beyond the limits of medium speci fi city, this