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Non mi ha reso Marina Abramović più simpatica (che non è il suo scopo, essendo una biografia), ma decisamente più comprensibile.
It didn't make me like Marina Abramović more (which wasn't its goal, being a biography), but it did help me understand her better.
(Picture: me sitting on Abramović's "Chair for Human Use (III)" in front of Monet's "Le bassin aux nymphéas" at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen)
pickRecently I‘ve been thinking about whether art has to have a perspective to be art. This novel looks at a piece by real-life performance artist Marina Abramović that is all perspective. In 2010, she sat all day for 75 days in a gallery and stared directly into the eyes of anyone who sat across from her. This feat of physical and emotional endurance is just incredible. The story focused mainly on one fictional character very moved by this, but ⬇️
Mine was neither signed nor numbered, but I loved it none the less.
"Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless." --
#modernlove #loveprevails @Eggs
pick"Walk throught the walls" is Marina Abramović's memoir. I had very basic knowledge about her work so I decided to read this book when I stumbled upon it in the library. I have read it in a day! So interesting! It has definitely helped me to better understand Performance and Conceptual Art.
#QuotsyAug20 Day 3: #Romance - this quote is from Season 1, Episode 2 of Modern Love - technically not from a book, but I simply couldn‘t resist. It is absolutely beautiful.
pickIt‘s my birthday! So I gifted myself the time to finally pick back up and finish this book, which I started many weeks ago. It‘s SO good. And bittersweetly perfect for right now, being that it‘s based in NYC and all about relationships and art and the meanings found in being together physically, even with strangers, and even when no words are spoken. 💔❤️ I loved and highly recommend it.
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This book is fiction and fact. I love it when I read a book and it teaches me things. I spent a lot of time googling the performance artist Marina Abramović and the show ‘The artist is present‘ where she sat for 75 days across from whomever wished to and silently stared into their eyes. Fascinating!
March #bookspin
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President‘s Day means a four-day weekend to the school districts around here, so this year Valentine‘s Day is a day off, too. We‘re enjoying the lack of schedule, and looking forward to the sweets and celebrations that will come later, but right now I‘m excited to finally be starting this book. (The 🌻 is a gift from one of my kids who grew it himself in the school garden. ❤️)
