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Indlæser... When Marina Abramovic Dies: A Biography (MIT Press) (udgave 2010)af James Westcott (Forfatter)
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[A] weakness in this meticulously researched book ... is that occasionally interpretations and opinions are not attributed and are presented as 'fact'.... Westcott has almost certainly produced what will be considered Abramovic's definitive biography, at least of her first sixty-five years. James Westcott's biography, When Marina Abramovic Dies, is illuminating, well illustrated (100 photographs), and extremely thorough. It is also a great read. Westcott's fascinating account chronicles Abramovic's life and is based on extensive and careful research of her exhaustively complete archives as well as interviews with friends and relatives who have known her over the decades and around the world. Westcott's denser prose is supported by his unprecedented access to Abramovic and her archives and provides a broader picture of the performance art scene through references to, among others, John Cage, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Joan Jonas, and Chris Burden.
The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art. When Marina Abramović Dies examines the extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation--and one who is still at the forefront of contemporary art today. This intimate, critical biography chronicles Abramović's formative and until now undocumented years in Yugoslavia, and tells the story of her partnership with the German artist Ulay--one of the twentieth century's great examples of the fusion of artistic and private life. In one of many long-durational performances in the renewed solo career that followed, Abramović famously lived in a New York gallery for twelve days without eating or speaking, nourished only by prolonged eye contact with audience members. It was here, in 2002, that author James Westcott first encountered her, beginning an exceptionally close relation between biographer and subject. When Marina Abramović Dies draws on Westcott's personal observations of Abramović, his unprecedented access to her archive, and hundreds of hours of interviews he conducted with the artist and the people closest to her. The result is a unique and vivid portrait of the charismatic self-proclaimed "grandmother of performance art." No library descriptions found. |
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