Marina Abramovic Walk Through Walls : A Memoir (Paperback) /anglais - Softcover

ABRAMOVIC MARINA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241974526 ISBN 13: 9780241974520

Publisher: PENGUIN UK, 2017

Synopsis

''Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate'' Observer

This memoir spans Marina Abramovic''s five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years.

Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe. Best known for her recent pieces ''The Artist is Present'' and ''512 Hours'', this book is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today, and the woman who has been described as ''the grandmother of performance art''.

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Review

An Amazon Best Book of November 2016: She’s nuts. There will be devotees devouring Walk Through Walls who will revel in the genius of performance artist Marina Abramović. But for those approaching this frank and fascinating memoir not knowing much about her, that would be an understandable assessment. After all, Abramović has willingly had a loaded pistol pointed at her head, been maimed by strangers, she’s lost consciousness after laying in the middle of a gas-soaked star set aflame (and that’s just for starters). It’s an odd career trajectory considering Abramović’s antithetical upbringing under the hem of a tyrannical mother who insisted she be home by ten at the tender age of...24. Danica Rosić was seemingly ashamed of her daughter’s artistic endeavors, and yet when she died, Abramović discovered that she had stashed away newspaper clippings about her performances—holey clippings where she had carefully cut out her daughter’s often nude (and sometimes mutilated) visage. You might be tempted to excise the more disturbing aspects of Abramović’s narrative as well, but like a gruesome car crash, it’s tough to look away. And if you find yourself cringing, well then, that’s the point. One of the main purposes of Abramović’s art--of her life--is to learn how to confront and transcend the uncomfortable—the physically and the emotionally painful. You may come away from Walk Through Walls thinking, yeah, this lady, she cray. But there is something to be said for someone with the audacity to run towards what the rest of us are only too happy to flee. --Erin Kodicek, The Amazon Book Review

About the Author

Raised in Yugoslavia, Marina Abramovic now makes her primary residence in New York and in the Hudson Valley.
From the Hardcover edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: PENGUIN UK
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241974526
• ISBN 13: 9780241974520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370