Marina Abramovic is a performing artist from Serbia but based in New York. She was born on 30th November 1946 in Belgrade, Serbia. She is popular for her artistic work that explores the relationship between the performer and the audience, possibilities of the mind and the limits of the body. She has been active for more than three decades and has been described as the grandmother of performance art. One of the most popular work by Abramovic is Rhythm 0 published in 1974. In this unique work of art, she gave up control to the audience to use any of the 72 objects on her body in any way they desired. The objects included a gun, olive oil, the single bullet, a whip, honey, rose, a feather, a whip and scissors among others. The audience manipulated her body and action and by the end of the performance here body had been attacked, devalued and stripped. The audience divided between those who wanted to harm her and those who tried to protect her. The performance lasted six hours, and the protective audience insisted the performance be stopped. She described the end …show more content…
The author seeks to define the true description of conceptual art. Green, Charles. The Third Hand. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. The book presents a string of original essays that address several historical, theoretical and aesthetic issues that were raised by post-1960s photography that was the mainstream artistic medium. The book described photography when it was a popular medium of conceptual art. Matheson, C. 'Who 's Afraid Of Conceptual Art? '. The British Journal of Aesthetics 53, no. 3 (2012): 369-373. The article constitutes a substantial proportion of literature related to the analytic philosophy of conceptual art. The author provides a methodical ontology and epistemology of conceptual art as well as a diagnosis of its strengths and weaknesses of conceptual art as an art