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When Marina Abramović dies : a biography / James Westcott.
- Title
- When Marina Abramović dies : a biography / James Westcott.
- Author
- Westcott, James, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
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- Description
- xiii, 328 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Marina Abramović 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. This critical biography chronicles Abramovic's formative and until now undocumented years in Yugoslavia.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biografieën (vorm)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: Yugoslavia 1946-1975. Birth pains ; Partisan Stories ; Menstruation, masturbation, migraines ; Self-management ; Life in art ; New art for a new society ; Sound made flesh ; Rites of passage ; Mark-making -- Part 2: Ulay 1975-1988. November 30 + November 30 ; Artist must be beautiful ; Mobile energy ; Motor function ; Who creates limits ; Aboriginals ; Snake couple go on ; Theater and tragedy ; Abstinence and affairs ; Revelations ; The lovers -- Part 3: Solo in public 1988- Spiritual/material ; Biography ; Balkanization ; Temporary forever ; Normality ; Wolf rat and golden lion ; Settlement ; Biographer ; Performance arts as a performing art ; Knowledge of death -- Epilogue: Before Marina Abramović dies.
- ISBN
- 9780262232623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262232626 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009019821
- OCLC
- 321047600
- SCSB-10183455
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library