Marina Abramovic by Marina Abramovic and Katya Tylevich

Marina Abramovic
A Visual Biography
by Marina Abramovic and Katya Tylevich
25 postcards featuring artwork from The Book of Cat Poems illustrated
by Sarah Maycock, with space on the back for the user's personal
message
Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating
ephemera from her personal archives, this book creates a visual landscape of
Marina Abramovic's personal and artistic life.
Illustrated with more than 700 photographs, Abramovic provides insight on her
most important works and some of her most difficult personal experiences,
conveying the story with her signature emotion and wit.
Fittingly blurring the lines between artist and art, this book acts as a keystone
in the life of one of the most important performance artists in the world.

Marina Abramovic
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina
Abramovic has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most
important early works. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has
withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual
transformation.
Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice
Biennale. In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and
simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in The Artist is Present" at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York. Abramovic founded Marina Abramovic
Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create
new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Katya Tylevich is an arts and fiction writer. She is author of Gus Van Sant:
The Art of Making Movies, Art Oracles, Success Oracles, many book and
monograph contributions, essays and interviews, and co-author of My Life as
a Work of Art. Notable artist collaborations include The Marina Abramovic
Method Cards, the text for Michael Borremans' The Acrobat, as well as
projects with Barry McGee, Todd Hido, and Espen Deitrichson. Katya spent
years as contributing editor and writer for publications such as Elephant,
Mark, Frame, Domus, and Pin-Up. With her brother Alexei she co-founded
Friend & Colleague, a platform for editions, fiction and special projects. She is
currently working on a fiction book titled Fear Eats the Soup.

Laurence King Publishing
On Sale: Nov 28/23
496 pages
9780857829467 • $150.00 • cl
Art / Performance