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Marina Abramovic's Reading List

The performance artist and author of “Walk Through Walls” doesn’t have a severe temperament: “I have a dark sense of humor which is very much from the Balkans — I love dirty jokes.”

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By the Book: Marina Abramovic (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-10-11).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Tesla: Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney · Buy on Amazon
"Nikola Tesla had such intuition about the future, and his ideas are more relevant today than ever before -- it's inspiring to read about his life."
The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects
Alexandra David-Neel · Buy on Amazon
"I return to it again and again in different stages of my life."
On Creativity
David Bohm · Buy on Amazon
"Reading about the creative process from a scientific perspective, I found more similarities to my own work than I thought I would."
Cover of Just Kids
Just Kids
Patti Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Patti Smith's Just Kids was a huge inspiration for me. While reading it, I was so nostalgic about the simplicity and innocence of the art scene in the '70s, which I think she portrayed really well."
Letters: Summer 1926
Rainer Maria Rilke · Buy on Amazon
"When I was young, she gave me Letters: Summer 1926, about the three-way correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Tsvetayeva and Boris Pasternak."

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