Laurie Anderson – författare

The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson.Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s. He studied with Chen Tai Chi pioneer Master Ren GuangYi. This book is a comprehensive collection of Reed's writings on Tai Chi. It includes conversations with Reed's fellow musicians, artists, friends, and Tai Chi practitioners, including Julian Schnabel, A.M. Homes, Hal Willner, Mingyur Rinpoche, Eddie Stern, Tony Visconti, and Iggy Pop. The Art of the Straight Line features Reed's unpublished writings on the technique, practice, and purpose of martial arts, as well as essays, observations, and riffs on meditation and life.

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The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson.Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s. He studied with Chen Tai Chi pioneer Master Ren GuangYi. This book is a comprehensive collection of Reed's writings on Tai Chi. It includes conversations with Reed's fellow musicians, artists, friends, and Tai Chi practitioners, including Julian Schnabel, A.M. Homes, Hal Willner, Mingyur Rinpoche, Eddie Stern, Tony Visconti, and Iggy Pop. The Art of the Straight Line features Reed's unpublished writings on the technique, practice, and purpose of martial arts, as well as essays, observations, and riffs on meditation and life.

The most up-to-date monograph available on the work of celebrated visual artist, musician, and peace activist Yoko Ono A wide-ranging book on internationally celebrated visual artist, musician, and peace activist Yoko Ono.Born in Tokyo in 1933, Yoko Ono is one of the most important living artists working today. In a career that spans seven decades, she has worked with a broad variety of media, including visual art, music, performance art, and film.Most widely known as the author of the seminal book Grapefruit and for her early involvement with the Fluxus art movement in the mid-1960s, Ono's ground-breaking work has been influential to generations of artists, as has her ongoing campaigning for world peace.

“I’m a musician and my work is made of stories. Whether it’s music, film, performance, or virtual reality, there’s usually a story somewhere, a story from my own life, history, or the great shifting panorama of American culture.” — Laurie Anderson The Weather and Other Stories is a survey of the work of legendary artist Laurie Anderson in her own words. At heart a storyteller, the artist serves as a personal guide through two of her most ambitious recent exhibitions that span fifty years of work: The Weather at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Looking into a Mirror Sideways at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.Anderson reveals the creative impulses behind her many iconic works and introduces new bodies of work in detail. From the iconic Drum Dance and the violin duets of Duets on Ice to her cutting-edge experiments with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the book explores how Anderson “puts things into words and words into things.” She provides behind-the-scenes insights into major installations like Habeas Corpus, which examines justice through the story of a Guantánamo detainee, and Salute, an animatronic display of red flags symbolizing a nation in upheaval. New works include a project centered on the life and “family lore” of Anderson’s Swedish grandfather Axel Ephraim Anderson and Scenes from ARK, a translation of the artist’s three-hour performance work which centered around “end-times fables, climate, survival strategies, love, American history, and stories from the Bible.” Richly illustrated and filled with both expository and poetic texts (including maxims, dreams, and lyrics), the book is a walk-in notebook of an artist perpetually curious about the intersection of technology, memory, and the American cultural landscape.