Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Abramovic, Marina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241974526 ISBN 13 : 9780241974520

Editeur : Penguin, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"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

“In her new memoir, Walk Through Walls, [Marina Abramović] 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

“Abramović may be the only superstar performance artist in the world at the moment, and...the book itself has the veneer of an ambitious performance piece, as Abramović exposes her deepest personal wounds and places them next to her artistic triumphs, in order to create a kind of epic mythology around her work. The author turns blank pages into a museum of the self, cutting herself open for the sake of the narrative. But in Abramović’s case, the performance feels even more extreme. She has actually bled for her life story, onto pristine gallery floors....This Marina is the most charming one, the voice that makes Walk Through Walls propulsively readable.”—New Republic

"[Walk Through Walls] is really close to what it’s like to spend a weekend with her: Abramovic is funny, generous, and vituperative, a raconteur and comedian and the sometimes sad-sack hero of the epic tale of her mad life."—New York Magazine

“Abramović’s story is thoroughly detailed, with brutally honest descriptions of her life and performance pieces, all providing deep insights into her work....an informative, eye-opening look at the larger world of art.”—Library Journal

"The memoir’s most powerful moments come when Abramović shares the most intimate details of the romantic heartaches she’s endured. Marina pulls no punches about the men she’s loved and the artist feels feels more present than ever."—Smithsonian Magazine

“Walk Through Walls reads as a frank and straightforward retelling of a life story...Where is the dividing line that separates life and art? That question, and tension, make this an electrifying read.” —BookPage

"...There is something intensely enthralling about Abramović’s simple, matter-of-factly candor in surveying, without belaboring, the traumatic formative experiences despite which — and, to a large extent, because of which — she became the person and artist she is."—Brainpickings  

"An entertaining page-turner dotted with juicy details . . . teems with that wonderfully jumbled, delightful, complicated mix of art and life.”—The Daily Beast

"Walk Through Walls is...as enthralling and powerful as [Marina's] career and work."—Riveter's

"[Walk Through Walls is] rawly intimate and weirdly mesmeric...quietly revelatory."—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’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

Quatrième de couverture

This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years.

Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe. 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, and the woman who has been described as 'the grandmother of performance art'.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241974526
• ISBN 13: 9780241974520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384