Objects Performance Video Sound - Softcover

Abramovic, Marina; Goldberg, Roselee; McEvilley, Thomas; Elliott, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 090583688X ISBN 13: 9780905836881

Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Marina Abramovic (born 1946) is one of the foremost contemporary performance artists. She has used her body and personal history both as a social metaphor and as a material for her work. This publication examines the whole range of her large production to date and establishes the common ground between her installations, videos, performances and objects. A series of articles written by leading art critics and specialists discuss the earliest paintings, sound installations and performances made in Yugoslavia during the 1960s and early 1970s; the years of collaborative performances with Ulay (1976-88); the videos, made both collaboratively and singly throughout her career; the so-called transitional objects which demand the participation of the viewer in order for them to be activated (1988-); the new, baroque and violently "theatrical" meta-performances Biography (1992) and Delusional (1994) and, most recently, the power objects, which indicate a new departure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 090583688X
• ISBN 13: 9780905836881
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Iles Chrissie