Summary: Collaborations: creative partnerships in music | Janine Burke The dynamics of Ono and Lennon’s creative partnership have been obscured by the couple’s celebrity status, by public prejudice against Ono as well as by Lennon’s dominant and enduring reputation. This paper explores the music and performance works, enacted by the couple during their 14 year collaboration, that were often conceptually and politically generated by Ono. The confluence of Ono’s avant-guardism with Lennon’s popularism/popularity created an innovative aesthetics of political action that emphasised pacifism and feminism. Dr Janine Burke, who holds a Monash Fellowship jointly in PSI and ECPS, is the author of sixteen books of art history, biography and fiction. Her books include <em>Australian Women artists, 1840-1940</em> (Greenhouse, 1980) and <em>Field of Vision: A Decade of Change, Women’s Art in the Seventies</em> (Viking, 1990). In 1987, she won the Victorian Premier’s Award for fiction for her novel <em>Second Sight</em> (Greenhouse, 1986). Her next novel, <em>Company of Images</em> (Greenhouse, 1989) was shortlisted for <em>The Age</em> Book of the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award. <em>The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Arts Collection</em> (Knopf, 2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier’s Award for non-fiction. She curated “Sigmund Freud’s Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind” for Monash University Museum of Art in 2007. Her new book, <em>Source: Nature’s Healing Role in Art and Writing,</em> will be published in October 2009.
