One of Louise Bourgeois's most striking sculptures is the "Spider". It fits no genre and all of them - architecture, sculpture, installation, and its contents evoke social issues. In this book, literary critic and theorist, Mieke Bal presents the work as a theoretical object, one that can teach us h[...]
edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist"Everyday you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if youcannot accept it, you become a sculptor."Since the age of twelve, the internationally renowned sculptor LouiseBourgeois has been writing and drawing;first a diary preciselyrecount[...]
Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras, including minimalism, installation art, and body art. However, she did not achieve fame until after her seventieth year, discovered[...]
One of this UK's pre-eminent artists, Louise Bourgeois is a unique figure in contemporary art. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois spent most of her career receiving little recognition from the art community. She has worked closely to many of the century's key artistic moments, from Surrealism to Abstr[...]
The most complete overview of groundbreaking artist Louise Bourgeois's sculptures, textiles, and prints is now available as an accessible paperback. Louise Bourgeois's beguiling body of work encompasses spiders, cages, architectural sculptures, fragile human figures, and amorphous erotic forms. Stro[...]
Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition originated from her own lived experience. "My goal is to relive a past emotion,[...]
Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois is widely regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary artists. From giant spiders to embroidered heads and delicate drawings, the work she has produced in her seven-decade career is as diverse as it is engaging. This book provides an accessible introdu[...]
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is one of the most significant and influential figures in modern and contemporary art, whose diverse practice has challenged conventions and captured the imagination of audiences around the world. This publication focuses on an outstanding collection of sculptures, works[...]
In her work, Bourgeois used materials ranging from rubber, wood, fabric, and metal to glass, paper, cement and marble, through which the stories of her own life resonated with the lives of others. This generously illustrated book presents the complete cycle of CellA" installations from the 1990s un[...]
Like the majority of Bourgeois's pieces, her series of Cells are at once enigmatic and extremely personal. Constructed during the last two decades of the artist's life, these complex and sophisticated works are daring and provocative. Many are small enclosures into which the viewer is prompted to pe[...]
ike the majority of Bourgeois's pieces, her series of Cells are at once enigmatic and extremely personal. Constructed during the last two decades of the artist's life, these complex and sophisticated works are daring and provocative. Many are small enclosures into which the viewer is prompted to pee[...]
This book documents a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the architect Peter Zumthor (born 1973). The Steilneset Memorial, opened in 2011, is a monument in Vardo, Norway, commemorating the 17th-century trial and execution of 91 women for witchcraft.
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Louise Bourgeois' drawings for the La Fabrica Matador series of Artist Portfolios, originally produced in 1999, are executed on music notation paper using red, blue and black ballpoint pens. In a short statement written for the portfolio, Bourgeois writes: "At first there is terrific tension. Then s[...]
"Alone and Together" accompanies two retrospective exhibitions on Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) curated by her personal assistant and friend, Jerry Gorovoy. As the title of this publication--taken from Bourgeois' gouache diptych of the same name--indicates, the artist's lifelong creative and personal[...]
Along with a group of drawings from the 1940s, in which pendulous forms are delineated in black ink, the selection of works presented in this volume demonstrate the myriad ways in which Louise Bourgeois approached material, form, and scale. They also affirm the various readings of Bourgeoiss work, w[...]
Ursprungligen publicerad i SvD 2002-06-16 "Bourgeois arbetar sex dagar i veckan. På söndagar håller hon salong i sitt townhouse på Manhattan. Bourgeois menar att varje generation har något att lära henne. Jag besöker salongen för att diskutera en eventuell intervju, övriga gäster är ko[...]