William Allen Word & Image

George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Bottoms aka Fluxus wallpaper, c.1973. 

564x434 mm. Offset lithograph on paper. Unknown edition. The black and white close up view of a bottom appears to be from Ono’s film ‘Film No.4 (Bottoms)’, which was originally filmed in New York in 1966 as a five minute short film premiering at the Film-Maker's Cinematheque, New York, 6 February 1966.The work was restaged in an 80 minute version with further participants in London the same year. The film would be first screened at Jacey - Tatler Cinema on Charing Cross Road, 8 August 1967. The wallpaper was tiled to cover a full wall of the exhibition ‘Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography’, MoMA, New York, 7 May 2010 – 18 April 2011.