Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist - Hardcover

Abramovic, Marina; Fischer, Jeannette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3858817945 ISBN 13: 9783858817945

Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2018

Synopsis

In the summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic’s house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a psychoanalytical perspective for a lengthy exploration of Abramovic’s biography and art and their interrelation.

Abramovic went into this discussion in hopes of reaching a better understanding of herself, her personality, and her work. Conversations with artists are widely available, she notes, but a chance to use psychoanalysis to put an artist’s life and work in context is much rarer. The resulting book is neither a therapist’s report nor a Fischer’s analysis of Abramovic. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramovic’s life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischer’s comments on them and images of some of Abramovic’s performances that are referred to in the discussion.

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About the Author

Marina Abramovic is arguably the world's most famous and most radical performance artist. Jeannette Fischer read comparative religious studies in Athens and Tubingen. She lives and works in Zurich as a psychoanalyst with a focus on the forms and dynamics of relationships and their expression in art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3858817945
• ISBN 13: 9783858817945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160