“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 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.
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.
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從讀者角度來說是一本非常流暢的書,她的語言簡潔明瞭,時而不失幽默。簡潔,也是我對她藝術理念的理解。所謂walk through walls,就是在挑戰身體和心理的極限的過程中突破束縛,放飛自我。上大學的時候老師就講過她的例子,當時覺得也還蠻新穎的,第一次接觸這種很挑戰觀感和...
評分2017-1-24 至 2017-1-26 Marina Abramović "Walk Through Walls" I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she w...
評分The only time I saw any Abramović-related artwork in a physical art gallery is when I visited the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, with an ex-friend of mine who was nearly obsessed with Marina. We walked past a television showing her aggressively bru...
評分The only time I saw any Abramović-related artwork in a physical art gallery is when I visited the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, with an ex-friend of mine who was nearly obsessed with Marina. We walked past a television showing her aggressively bru...
評分The only time I saw any Abramović-related artwork in a physical art gallery is when I visited the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, with an ex-friend of mine who was nearly obsessed with Marina. We walked past a television showing her aggressively bru...
圖書標籤: 藝術 人物傳記 行為藝術 傳記 ART 自傳 英文原版 2016
活齣一個精彩而又無憾既人生..
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分inspiring intimate encouraging
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