Laurie Anderson

Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson takes the reader through her most important work of the last five decades, revealing her boundless creativity and deft storytelling. Sometime before the pandemic, Anderson—a legendary figure in the worlds of art, performance, and music—was in the midst of preparing for two monumental survey exhibitions. Prompted by those tours de force, Anderson gathers in this volume...

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