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Walk through walls : a memoir / Marina Abramović, with James Kaplan.

by Abramović, Marina.

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Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2016]

709.040755 A161w

Abramović, Marina.

Women performance artists -- Yugoslavia -- Biography.

Performance artists -- Biography.

Women artists -- Yugoslavia -- Biography.

Artists -- Yugoslavia -- 20th century -- Biography.

9781101905043 (hc.)

370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović's MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor - all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story - a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe - a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. An incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist. Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance as a visual art form, creating some of the most important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.

Autobiographies.

Kaplan, James, 1951-

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