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100 1 $aWestcott, James,$d1979-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009029375
245 10 $aWhen Marina Abramović dies :$ba biography /$cJames Westcott.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axiii, 328 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tYugoslavia 1946-1975 -- $gPt. 2.$tUlay 1975-1988 -- $gPt. 3.$tSolo In Public 1988- -- $tEpilogue: Before Marina Abramovic Dies.
520 1 $a"Marina Abramovic has spent four decades making traumatic and transcendent artworks using her own body as a material - and breaking through the boundaries of visual art along the way, In the early 1970s, Abramovic began making performances that have turned into legend. These included lying in the center of a burning five-pointed star (symbol of the communism of her native Yugoslavia) until she lost consciousness; remaining determinedly passive for six hours while members of an audience did whatever they wanted to her (even pushing a loaded gun to her neck); and cutting a pentagram on her stomach before whipping herself and lying naked on a cross made of ice." "When Marina Abramovic 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 Abramovic'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. Abramovic/Ulay started out living in a Citroen van, touring Europe and making "relational" performances that explored their symbiotic (and often painful) relationship. In their final performance, after twelve years of collaboration, the two walked toward each other from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China until, after ninety days, they met in the middle and said goodbye." "In one of many long-durational performances in the renewed solo career that followed, Abramovic 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 Abramovic Dies draws on Westcott's personal observations of Abramovic, 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 portrait of the charismatic self-proclaimed "grandmother of performance art.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aAbramović, Marina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88060401
650 0 $aPerformance artists$zSerbia$vBiography.
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