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The autobiography - for her 70th birthday on November 30, 2016. She has pushed the boundaries of art: whipping herself, carving a pentagram into her stomach with a shard of glass, driving a knife into her fingers. She has walked 2,500 kilometers along the Great Wall of China, traveled the world for twelve years in a converted Citroën van, and lived for a year with the Aborigines in Australia. Since "The Artist is Present" - her famous performance in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York - Marina Abramovic has been regarded as a cult figure worldwide. Robert Redford admires her just as much as Lady Gaga. She was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2014 by "Time Magazine." In her memoirs, Abramovic reflects on seven decades of life as a charismatic artist and boundary pusher, starting from her strict childhood in communist Yugoslavia, where she...