Walk through walls marina abramovic the paperback bookshop. Marina abramovic is a serbian performance artist based in new york. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. There will be devotees devouring walk through walls who will revel in the genius of performance artist marina abramovic.
To ask other readers questions about walk through walls, please sign up. I had experienced absolute freedom i had felt that my body was without boundaries. In her new memoir, walk through walls, marina abramovic exposes herself as provocatively and fearlessly in language as she has done for many years in her largely nonverbal performance art. Abramovic founded the marina abramovic institute mai, a platform for. Walk through walls by marina abramovic, paperback barnes. In fact, it is the early childhood chapters in the memoir that are the most interesting and, in a sense, the books centre of gravity. Exploring how her extreme commitment to the moment is the secret to her art and success, walk through walls reveals how she became one of the most important living artists in the world. The beating heart of walk through walls is an operatic love storya twelveyear collaboration with fellow performance artist ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across europea relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the great wall of china. In her new memoir, walk through walls, marina abramovic exposes herself as. Walk through walls has already come under attack as racist for a leaked. Buy walk through walls signed and numbered collectors ed.
Just as her performances are impossible to turn away from, i could not put down this book. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. Marina abramovic walk through walls, paperback, editura penguin books ltd her bravest work of performance art to date. Marina abramovic walk through walls, paperback elefant. Explore books by marina abramovic with our selection at.
This marina is the most charming one, the voice that makes walk through walls propulsively readable. Taking us from her early life in communist exyugoslavia, to her time as a. She is confident people will connect with the book. The observer uk walk through walls is the story of a relentlessly independent artist thwarted in her quest for total connection with one person who eventually achieves it with thousands. Marina abramovic thinks i think too much, and am not very useful besides that. She has actually bled for her life story, onto pristine gallery floors. Walk through walls by marina abramovic waterstones. Marina s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an.
Instead, she writes, in a passage that sets this books tone of sleek, international, bonolevel pretentiousness, i preferred to play with the. Walk through walls gives the impression that the phrase real talk may have been coined solely for its author marina abramovic. Her pageturner of a narrative is at times shocking. She contracted with jay z to appear in his picasso baby video in return for a donation to mai. New republic walk through walls is really close to what its like to spend a weekend with her. Rawly intimate observerthis memoir spans marina abramovics five decade career, and tells a life story. Marina abramovic on her lovers and her critics the cut. Walk through walls is rawly intimate and weirdly mesmeric.
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