Walk Through Walls

Author : Marina Abramovic
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101905043

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Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic Pdf

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina 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. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

Author : Marina Abramovic
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101905050

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Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic Pdf

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina 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. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416579656

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Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith Pdf

Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick. After a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman. Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith's astonishing memoir of growing up in a household where séances, talking spirits, and exorcisms were daily occurrences, and inexplicable psychic healings resulted in visitors suddenly discarding their crutches and wheelchairs or being cured of fatal diseases. While there are benefits to having a miracle man in the house, Philip soon discovers the downside of living with a father who psychically knows everything he is doing. Surrounded by invisible spirits who tend to behave like nagging relatives, Philip looks for ways to escape his mystical home life—including forays into sex, surfing, and even Scientology. By turns hilarious and profound, Walking Through Walls recounts Philip Smith's often bizarre but always magical coming of age in a household that felt like a cross between Lourdes and the set of Rosemary's Baby, and shows how he managed to map out his own identity in the shadow of a father who, truly, loomed larger than life itself.

Author : Marcel Ayme
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908968203

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The Man who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Ayme Pdf

The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ...

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0450061493

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The Cat who Walks Through Walls by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Author : Tom Reiss
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812972764

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The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Pdf

A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal–and sometimes as heartbreaking–as his subject’s life.

Author : Austin Mardon,Ernest G. Mardon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nazis
ISBN : 9781895385434

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The Girl Who Could Walk Through Walls by Austin Mardon,Ernest G. Mardon Pdf

Author : Jeannette Fischer
Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Performance art
ISBN : 3858817945

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Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic by Jeannette Fischer Pdf

Based largely on four days of conversations between the artist and the psychoanalyst, the book includes excerpts from those conversations

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416544661

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Pdf

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Author : Stephen Arterburn
Publisher : Worthy Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617950131

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Walking Into Walls by Stephen Arterburn Pdf

All of us crash into self-constructed walls and bloody our noses from time to time. These walls block growth, healthy relationships and overall contentment and happiness. Most of us are blind to our own self-defeating behaviors and attitudes, so we repeatedly walk into the same walls again and again. Best-selling author Stephen Arterburn leads us through the process of deconstructing the issues that built those walls as well as find the permanent healing that frees us to live the joyful life we were meant to live.

Author : Glen Denny
Publisher : Yosemite Conservancy
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781930238695

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Valley Walls by Glen Denny Pdf

Half a century ago a rag-tag group of innovators was building a foundation for modern American rock climbing from a makeshift home base in Yosemite. Photographer Glen Denny was a key figure in this golden age of climbing, capturing pioneering feats on camera while tackling challenging ascents himself. In entertaining short pieces enlivened by his iconic black-and-white images of Yosemite's big wall legends, Denny reveals a young man's coming of age and provides a vivid look at Yosemite’s early climbing culture. He relates such precarious achievements as hauling water in glass gallon jugs up the east face of Washington Column, nailing the 750-foot Rostrum in a punishing heat wave, and dangling overnight on El Capitan’s Dihedral Wall in a lightning storm. Each true tale captures the spirit of historic Camp 4, where Denny and others plan the next big climb while living on the cheap and dodging park rangers.

Author : Marina Abramovic
Publisher : Crown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101905067

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Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic Pdf

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina 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. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.

Author : Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393330335

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition) by Burton G. Malkiel Pdf

Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, the bestselling guide to investing evaluates the full range of financial opportunities.

Author : Geshe Gedün Lodrö
Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015028454455

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Walking Through Walls by Geshe Gedün Lodrö Pdf

A comprehensive meditation manual.

Author : James Westcott
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262526814

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When Marina Abramovic Dies by James Westcott Pdf

The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art. When Marina Abramović Dies examines the extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation—and one who is still at the forefront of contemporary art today. This intimate, critical biography chronicles Abramović's formative and until now undocumented years in Yugoslavia, and tells the story of her partnership with the German artist Ulay—one of the twentieth century's great examples of the fusion of artistic and private life. In one of many long-durational performances in the renewed solo career that followed, Abramović famously lived in a New York gallery for twelve days without eating or speaking, nourished only by prolonged eye contact with audience members. It was here, in 2002, that author James Westcott first encountered her, beginning an exceptionally close relation between biographer and subject. When Marina Abramović Dies draws on Westcott's personal observations of Abramović, his unprecedented access to her archive, and hundreds of hours of interviews he conducted with the artist and the people closest to her. The result is a unique and vivid portrait of the charismatic self-proclaimed “grandmother of performance art.”