Marina Abramović / Kristine Stiles, Klaus Biesenbach, Chrissie Iles.

By:

Stiles, Kristine

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2008.Description: 158 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:

0714848026
9780714848020

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DDC classification:

702.812 ABR

Summary: Since the early 1970's, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Her body is her primary subject and medium, from the early sound-based performances in her native Yugoslavia, to her collaborative works with German artists Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), her videos exploring her Balkan heritage, and most recently her re-enactments of hisorical performaces by fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman and Valie Export.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	702.812 ABR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100421016

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject and her medium, and she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her ongoing quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces. Of these artists, she is the only one still making important durational works.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-157).

Since the early 1970's, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Her body is her primary subject and medium, from the early sound-based performances in her native Yugoslavia, to her collaborative works with German artists Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), her videos exploring her Balkan heritage, and most recently her re-enactments of hisorical performaces by fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman and Valie Export.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kristine Stiles is Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and has contributed to numerous books, including Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object (1997), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (1996) and Phaidon's Paul McCarthy (1995).

Klaus Biesenbach is the Founding Director of Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Curator at the Museum of Modern Art and its affiliate, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.

Chrissie Iles is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she co-curated the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials.