📗 Libro en inglés MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Survey by Kristine Stiles, Interview by Klaus Biesenbach, Focus by Chrissie Iles, Artist’s Choice text by Alexandra David-Néel, Writings by Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović (b.1946) is a pivotal figure whose performance-based works have revolutionized visual art and continue to be embraced by the latest generation of artists, critics and art historians Her iconic endurance works have featured prominently in virtually every comprehensive survey of performance art With a career that spans more than thirty years, Abramović continues to produce groundbreaking new work, including the acclaimed seven-day performance Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim in 2005 As the first book in more than a decade to look at her work in its entirety, this monograph will offer a fresh take on an artist whose work is key to understanding the latest developments in contemporary art 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.