"This catalogue is published in conjunction with Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 11 through August 7, 2022, and the New Orleans Museum of Art from September 8, 2022, through January 8, 2023"-- Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162), filmography (page 162), and index.
Contents:
A decade of painting. Chronology, 1911 to 1953 / Clare Davies. A decade of painting. Enter with caution / Briony Fer -- Seeing red / Briony Fer -- Plates -- Chronology, 1911 to 1953 / Clare Davies.
Summary:
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known-and the focus of this publication-is the body of paintings produced by the artist between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional media in 1949. Crucial to her artistic practice, these early works-rarely seen or exhibited-show Bourgeois's deeply personal artistic lexicon. Themes and motifs explored in her paintings coalesced into those that she would continue to mine during her decades-long career: the clock, the spiral, the Femme Maison (a woman's body with a house for a head), and the columnar figures that heralded her totemic Personage sculptures. Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, the book's essays and illustrated chronology explore Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s-transformed by the arrival of European Surrealists and the emergence of the New York School-and her development of a pictorial language combining abstraction, figuration, and storytelling. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (11.04. - 07.08.2022) / New Orleans Museum of Art, USA (08.09.2022 - 08.01.2023).
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