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Walk Through Walls : A Memoir by Marina Abramovic (2016, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCrown/Archetype
ISBN-101101905042
ISBN-139781101905043
eBay Product ID (ePID)219708327
Product Key Features
Book TitleWalk Through Walls : a Memoir
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Artists, Architects, Photographers
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorMarina Abramovic
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-287154
Reviews"Candidly and vividly sharing her personal struggles as well as her artistic and spiritual discoveries, Abramovic presents a uniquely intense and affecting art memoir." -- Booklist, starred review "Enchanting and emotionally raw, Walk Through Walls is an honest, gripping, and profound look into the heart and brilliant mind of one of the quintessential artists of the postmodern era." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Marina has lived like an unstoppable force of nature, with the kind of power that leaves me feeling breathless and disquieted--while at the same time profoundly impressed, awed, and inspired. As I turn the pages of her book, I hear her voice in my head, as if she were actually narrating the words. When Marina speaks, it sounds as if you're listening to a legendary folktale from the ancient landscapes of the Balkan Mountains. Her voice is soothing, calm, and centered. It belies the trauma, fear, and darkness coiled at the root of her impulse to express and expunge." --Annie Lennox, Vanity Fair " 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's magic derives from an emerging 'method' that involves tests of endurance and deprivation more commonly associated with Navy Seal training than with the world of modern art. Just as her performances are impossible to turn away from, I could not put down this book." --Tom Reiss, Pulitzer and PEN award-winning author of The Black Count and The Orientalist "Marina Abramović is famous for fiercely throwing herself, body and soul, into transformation through her art. In this intimate memoir, I hear her voice as I read. She confesses, confides, complains, instructs, and reflects with intelligence and humor on her difficult but ultimately magical life and liberating work." --Willem Dafoe "Abramović is the most celebrated performance/conceptual artist in the world, and she's probably the only one with a sense of humor." --Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times UK " Walk Through Walls is beautiful, panoramic, touching, deep. I really love and admire the way Marina confronts all the weird contradictions of myth mixing with daily life. She manages to say personal as well as self-critical things about herself while still making a self-portrait that is rich and full of real self-respect. What a life!" --Laurie Anderson "Marina's role as an artist, she believes, with a hubris that can sound nave and a humility that disarms any impulse to resent it, is to lead her spectators through an anxious passage to a place of release from whatever has confined them." --Judith Thurman, The New Yorker "In The Heart Sutra , Buddha says, 'Our life on earth is like a morning star, a bubble on water, a drop of dew, lightning in the summer sky, a dream in this floating world.' For Marina Abramović, there is no difference between art and life, life is a dream while it lasts, an absolute presence made ​​in a vacuum." --Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Enchanting and emotionally raw, Walk Through Walls is an honest, gripping, and profound look into the heart and brilliant mind of one of the quintessential artists of the postmodern era." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review " 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's magic derives from an emerging 'method' that involves tests of endurance and deprivation more commonly associated with Navy Seal training than with the world of modern art. Just as her performances are impossible to turn away from, I could not put down this book." --Tom Reiss, Pulitzer and PEN award-winning author of The Black Count and The Orientalist "Marina Abramović is famous for fiercely throwing herself, body and soul, into transformation through her art. In this intimate memoir, I hear her voice as I read. She confesses, confides, complains, instructs, and reflects with intelligence and humor on her difficult but ultimately magical life and liberating work." --Willem Dafoe "Abramović is the most celebrated performance/conceptual artist in the world, and she's probably the only one with a sense of humor." --Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times UK " Walk Through Walls is beautiful, panoramic, touching, deep. I really love and admire the way Marina confronts all the weird contradictions of myth mixing with daily life. She manages to say personal as well as self-critical things about herself while still making a self-portrait that is rich and full of real self-respect. What a life!" --Laurie Anderson "Marina's role as an artist, she believes, with a hubris that can sound naïve and a humility that disarms any impulse to resent it, is to lead her spectators through an anxious passage to a place of release from whatever has confined them." --Judith Thurman, The New Yorker "In The Heart Sutra , Buddha says, 'Our life on earth is like a morning star, a bubble on water, a drop of dew, lightning in the summer sky, a dream in this floating world.' For Marina Abramović, there is no difference between art and life, life is a dream while it lasts, an absolute presence made ​​in a vacuum." --Alejandro Jodorowsky
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal709.2
Synopsis"I had experienced absolute freedom--I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered at all--and it intoxicated me." In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovic'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 Abramovic 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. 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 uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
LC Classification NumberN7253.A25A2 2016
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