AbramovicÌ, Marina,

Walk through walls : a memoir / Marina AbramovicÌ, with James Kaplan - First edition - viii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina AbramovicÌ was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor -- all of which informs her art and her life. Marina's story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist--

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AbramovicÌ, Marina


Performance artists--Biography
Artists--Yugoslavia--20th century--Biography


Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biography.

N7253.A27 / A2 2016

709./497092