Marina Abramovic. Nomaid Journey and Spirit of Places

Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world´s most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic´´s daring and utterly original body of work. An artist´s notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from various hotels, and other temporary residences, this collection of Marina Abramovic´´s original drawings, collages, poetry, writings, cut-outs, photographs and doodles offers glimpses of a brilliant mind in constant motion. Beautifully produced and packaged, it takes readers on a journey through Abramovic´´s thoughts-and traces the evolution of the most fruitful phase of her career. "I believe we humans need to keep moving forward, and my own life was purely nomadic," Abramovic´ writes of her travel diaries. "My home was everywhere I went because my home was my own body." With the archival material elegantly reproduced in their original size on high-quality paper, this collection offers Abramovic´´s enormous fanbase unprecedented access to her creative process.