Best known for her recent pieces 'The Artist is Present' and '512 Hours', this book is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today.
Marina Abramovic is a Serbian performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over five decades, Abramovic has been described as the 'grandmother of performance art'.
Could this be her bravest work of performance art to date? . . .
Rawly intimate and weirdly mesmeric.
*Observer*
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*
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. Her
page-turner of a narrative [is] at times shocking...genuinely
moving, and always coruscatingly honest.
*Elle*
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. . . 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*
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*
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