Abramovic marina biography for kids

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The first ever picture-book biography for readers aged 4-7 years of the performance art pioneer – Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic is a world-famous artist who uses her body to perform in unexpected and unusual ways that make an audiences think.

She once sat back-to-back with her partner and had their hair tied together for over 17 hours. Another time, museum visitors watch her scrub 1,500 cow bones for six hours a day.

This innovative book tells an inspiring story about the pioneering performance artist who is also the first female artist to hold a major solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

This special celebration for young readers of one of the most important contemporary woman artists of our time features striking black-and-white and red illustrations printed in Pantones throughout, together with a reproduction of the artist's work and a brief biography at the back of the book. In this innovative volume, Marina Abramovic and her cutting-edge work are brought to life for young readers like never before.

Ages 4-7

• Format: Hardback
• Size: 215 × 215 mm (8 1/2 &time

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  Biography of Marina Abramović

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  1946

  Marina Abramović is born on November 30 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, to an affluent family with politically active parents. Vojin and Danica Abramović, who were Yugoslav partisans during World War II, continue their engagement in General Tito’s communist party. For their contributions during the war they are awarded high positions in the public sector; her father works with state security and her mother becomes head of the Museum of Art and the Revolution in Belgrade. While her parents make their political careers, Marina spends her first years living with her maternal grandmother. Milica Rosic is a devotee of the Orthodox Church, and her early childhood is deeply influenced by her grandmother’s faith.

  1952

  At the age of six, Marina Abramović moves in with her parents when her brother Velimir is born. Raising the children is primarily Danica’s responsibility; the father is largely absent. Life in her parental home under her mother’s strict supervision is experienced as difficult and cold. Marina is made to uphold her mother’s compulsive relationship to cleanliness and order.

  1953–58

  The Abramović family does not celebrate holidays or festivals together and rarely expresses their emotio

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