Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name hosted at the Tate Modern, London, October 10, 2007-January 20, 2008; Centre Pompidou, Paris, March 5-June 2, 2008; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 27-September 12, 2008; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 26, 2008-January 25, 2009; and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., February 26-May 17, 2009. Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Writings/Words as transitional objects / Donald Kuspit. Feminism/Is she? Or isn't she? / Elisabeth Lebovici -- Old age/Old age style : late Louise Bourgeois / Linda Nochlin -- Psychoanalysis/Louise Bourgeois : reconstructing the past / Mignon Nixon -- Runaway girl/Louise Bourgeois : from little pea to runaway girl / Julia Kristeva -- Sculpture/Hybrid sculpture / Alex Potts -- Writings/Words as transitional objects / Donald Kuspit.
Summary:
The most complete overview of groundbreaking artist Louise Bourgeois's sculptures, textiles, and prints is now available as an accessible paperback.00Louise Bourgeois's beguiling body of work encompasses spiders, cages, architectural sculptures, fragile human figures, and amorphous erotic forms. Strongly influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism, she remains among the most prominent female contemporary artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. An overview of Bourgeois's career, this book begins with a series of essays before delving into encyclopedic entries on the themes and concepts most essential to the artist's practice. A glossary of terms ranging from "etching" and "existentialism" to "Mapplethorpe" and "maternity" contains excerpts from interviews, diary entries, texts, and more than 300 illustrations to provide the reader with multiple points of entry into Bourgeois's complex and nonlinear world. The tenth-anniversary reissue makes this peerless resource available to all touched by Bourgeois's influential practice.0Her staggering variety of mediums includes rubber, wood, stone, metal, and fabric. In 1993, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. An overview of Bourgeois's career, this book covers individual works, art movements, other artists, and themes that have played an important role in her life and art, with text by acclaimed authors and critics.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.