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edited by MarieLaure Bernadac and HansUlrich ObristEveryday you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if youcannot accept it you become a sculptorSince the age of twelve the internationally renowned sculptor LouiseBourgeois has been writing and drawing first a diary preciselyrecounting the everyday events of her family life then notes andreflections Destruction of the Father the title comes fromthe name of a sculpture she did following the death of her husband in1973 contains both formal texts and what the artist callspenthoughts drawingtexts often connected to her drawings andsculptures with stories or poems inscribed alongside the imagesWriting is a means of expression that has gained increasing importancefor Bourgeois particularly during periods of insomnia The writing iscompulsive but it can also be perfectly controlled informed by herintellectual background knowledge of art history and sense ofliterary form she has frequently published articles on artistsexhibitions and art events Bourgeois a private woman withoutsecrets has given numerous interviews to journalists artists andwriters expressing her views on her oeuvre revealing its hiddenmeanings and relating the connection of certain works to the traumasof her childhood This book collects both her writings and her spokenremarks on art confirming the deep links between her work and herbiography and offering new insights into her creative process
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This digital document is an article from Artforum International published by Artforum International Magazine Inc on September 1 2010 The length of the article is 976 words The page length shown above is based on a typical 300word page The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase You can view it with any web browserCitation DetailsTitle Louise Bourgeois 19112010PASSAGESIn memoriamAuthor Lynne CookePublication Artforum International MagazineJournalDate September 1 2010Publisher Artforum International Magazine IncVolume 49 Issue 1 Page 811Article Type In memoriamDistributed by Gale a part of Cengage Learning
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This digital document is an article from Artforum International published by Artforum International Magazine Inc on September 1 2010 The length of the article is 976 words The page length shown above is based on a typical 300word page The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase You can view it with any web browserCitation DetailsTitle Louise Bourgeois 19112010PASSAGESIn memoriamAuthor Lynne CookePublication Artforum International MagazineJournalDate September 1 2010Publisher Artforum International Magazine IncVolume 49 Issue 1 Page 811Article Type In memoriamDistributed by Gale a part of Cengage Learning
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Louise Bourgeois work defies classification oscillating continually between abstract geometry and organic reality She uses a range of materials from wood and plaster to marble and latex to explore universal themesthe body childhood maternity and sexualityfrom a deeply personal perspective imbuing them with extraordinary emotional intensity This comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph is chronological in approach and brings together her works from early sketches and paintings to later sculptures and installations with which she has astonished the art world Author MarieLaure Bernadac skillfully weaves her insightful text with Bourgeois own words from articles films and interviews to provide a unique and highly accessible study of this fascinating and complex artist
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An elegantly produced double portrait of the affinities and differences between two of the 20th centurys greatest artistsCoupling the works of Louise Bourgeois 19112010 and Pablo Picasso 18811973 produces a thoughtprovoking discourse on the artists formal and iconographic links Inspired by archaic and primitive sources both Bourgeois and Picasso explored and developed interpretations of fertility and mother deities late in life both artists focused on eroticism sexuality and intimacyIn summer 2019 objects from these pivotal 20thcentury artists will be presented at Hauser amp Wirth Zürich marking the first twoperson show in which a female sculptors works are put into an extended dialogue with those of Picasso This beautifully designed book with its cloth boards and title stamping builds upon the complex conversation about gender the exhibition sparks with texts by exhibition curator MarieLaure Bernadac former curator at the Louvre Picasso Museum and Centre Pompidou Émilie Bouvard art historian and curator Ulf Küster curator at the Fondation Beyeler Gérard Wajcman psychoanalyst and writer and Diana Widmaier Picasso art historian
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Anyone who has stood underneath one of Louise Bourgeois Mamansher sculptures of spiders symbolizing maternal protectionunderstands the singularity of her artistic approach Stylistically her pioneering body of work is complex she deployed a wide variety of materials and practicesdrawings etchings installations works made of fabric sculptures in wood marble bronze latex plaster and hempto address universal questions This extensive monograph provides an overview of Bourgeois artistic development and presents a large number of works including some that have never before been reproduced The volume is grouped into themes that characterize her oeuvre including memory trauma relationships sexuality fear and the difficulties of being an artist and mother at the same time Personal photographs further document the artists childhood and family life with several letters and documents being made available for the first timeBorn in Paris where she studied with Fernand Léger Louise Bourgeois 19112010 moved to New York in 1938 where her first solo exhibition was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in 1945 She quickly developed a sculptural vocabulary that drew inventively and equally on Abstract Expressionism Surrealism and psychoanalysis Bourgeois had her first retrospective in 1982 at ThenbspMuseum of Modern Artnbspin New York She died in May 2010
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The most complete overview of groundbreaking artist Louise Bourgeoiss sculptures textiles and prints is now available as an accessible paperbackLouise Bourgeoiss 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 twentyfirst centuries An overview of Bourgeoiss career this book begins with a series of essays before delving into encyclopedic entries on the themes and concepts most essential to the artists 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 Bourgeoiss complex and nonlinear world The tenthanniversary reissue makes this peerless resource available to all touched by Bourgeoiss influential practiceHer 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 Bourgeoiss 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 including Julia Kristeva Elisabeth Lebovici Frances Morris Mignon Nixon Linda Nochlin Robert Storr Alex Potts Marina Warner and Deborah Wye
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Artwork by Louise Bourgeois Contributions by Jennifer Bloomer Text by Mieke Bal Lynne Cooke Beatriz Colomina Jerry Gorovoy Christiane Terrisse Danielle Tilkin Josef Helfenstein
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Two softcover books both 48 pages in English and German good condition both books slightly curled at left edge missing the black fabric band that held books together museum library stamp to title pages no other internal marks As is fine reading copy Foreign shipping may be extra
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Famous for her sculptures and installations Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important living artists Having worked with a number of different materials the artist has returned again and again to marble since the 1960s In more than 60 photographs this publication presents the results of Bourgeoiss continous confrontation with the unforgiving yet organic stone
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Now available in an updated and expanded edition this survey of an essential series in the art of Louise Bourgeois serves as an introduction to her influential work 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 Cell installations from the 1990s until a short time before Bourgeoiss death in 2010 In these contained environments Bourgeois reflected on the human tendency toward isolation and her own memories The book also places this work in the context of Bourgeoiss life as an artist including her youth as the daughter of Parisian textile workers her studies with Fernand Léger and her experiences with the leading artists of the New York School in the 40s and 50s
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The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures one of the most striking of which is the installation Spider 1997 Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once this elusive structure resists simple narration It fits both no genre and all of themarchitecture sculpture installation Its contents and associations evoke social issues without being reducible to any one of them Here literary critic and theorist Mieke Bal presents the work as a theoretical object one that can teach us how to think speak and write about art Known for her commentary on the issue of temporality in art Bal argues that art must be understood in relationship to the present time of viewing as opposed to the lessimmediate contexts of what has preceded the viewing such as the historical past of influences and art movements biography and interpretation In ten short chapters or takes Bal demonstrates that the closer the engagement with the work of art the more adequate the result of the analysis She also confronts issues of biography and autobiographykey themes in Bourgeoiss workand evaluates the consequences of ahistorical experiences for art criticism drawing on diverse sources such as Bernini and Benjamin Homer and EisensteinThis short beautiful book offers both a theoretical model for analyzing art out of context and a meditation on a key work by one of the most engaging artists of our era
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Louise Bourgeois is among the most prominent contemporary sculptors Strongly influenced by surrealism abstract expressionism and minimalism her work focuses on the exploration of her psyche A recurring theme is her troubled childhood and difficult relationship with her father Despite early success she did not receive widespread acclaim until the 70s Her 1982 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art was the museums firstever retrospective of a woman artist Since then she has exhibited worldwide producing a beguiling body of work featuring spiders cages architectural sculptures drawings and found objects ranging in scale from intimate to monumental Her staggering variety of mediums includes rubber wood stone metal and fabric In 1993 she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale This book accompanies a major retrospective touring exhibition An overview of Bourgeoiss career it 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 including Julia Kristeva Elisabeth Lebovici Frances Morris Mignon Nixon Linda Nochlin Robert Storr Alex Potts Marina Warner and Deborah Wye Exhibition ScheduleTate Modern London October 11 2007January 20 2008 Centre Georges Pompidou Paris March 5June 2008 Guggenheim Museum New York June 27September 28 2008 LAMoCA October 25 2008January 25 2009 Hirshhorn Washington February 28June 7 2009 tentative
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The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents the fear of failing as a wife mother and artist Over the course of her 70 years as an artist Louise Bourgeois born in 1911 in Paris has always placed the psychology of family at the center of her work Bourgeois left her homeland in 1938 without a degree to live in New York with her husband Robert Goldwater a curator at The Museum of Modern Art In 1940 the couple adopted their first son and in 1941 Bourgeois gave birth to two more boys Her artistic oeuvre deals almost exclusively with the fear of not being able to live up to the roles she was born into and took on Most of her early works consisted of paintings on the theme of family many of which have rarely if ever been reproduced When she first began sculpting she portrayed children and family members as stakes fatefully stuck in the ground Personnages with windows and openings who occasionally carried small packages but who seemed mute and paralyzed Her later work grew more sexualized and after the death of her husband she pursued the paternal element intensely This thematic gathering of 20 paintings more than 60 drawings 35 sculptures and 5 embroideries made between 1935 and 2005 is also by virtue of the centrality of family to her oeuvre an overarching retrospective a focused view of her career
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Louise Bourgeois work defies classification oscillating continually between abstract geometry and organic reality She uses a range of materials from wood and plaster to marble and latex to explore universal themesthe body childhood maternity and sexualityfrom a deeply personal perspective imbuing them with extraordinary emotional intensity This comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph is chronological in approach and brings together her works from early sketches and paintings to later sculptures and installations with which she has astonished the art world Author MarieLaure Bernadac skillfully weaves her insightful text with Bourgeois own words from articles films and interviews to provide a unique and highly accessible study of this fascinating and complex artist
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This book documents a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois 19112010 and the architect Peter Zumthor born 1943 The Steilneset Memorial opened in 2011 is a monument in Vardø Norway commemorating the 17thcentury trial and execution of 91 women for witchcraftThe brainchild of the National Tourist Routes project in Norway a governmentsponsored initiative which aims to attract visitors to remote but exceptionally beautiful locations the Steilneset Memorial started out as a modest monument to honor the victims of the witchcraft trials to be built on the site where the burnings originally took place But the project which would be Bourgeois last major work grew in the hands of Zumthor and Bourgeois into two distinct haunting structures
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Louise Bourgeois 19112010 invented a new kind of language for sculpturea language that was essentially psychoanalytic uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle ominous forces of repression sexual symbolism and material uncanniness Famed for some of the twentieth centurys most enduring works such as The Destruction of the Father 1974 Arch of Hysteria 1993 and Maman 1999 Bourgeois also disseminated her influence through her writings collected in the 1998 volume Destruction of the FatherReconstruction of the Father Writings 19271997originally published by Robert Violette also the publisher of this new deluxe writingscummonograph twovolume set Louise Bourgeois The Return of the Repressed highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artists life and work Selected and edited by Philip LarrattSmith Bourgeois literary archivist and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artists production The second volume in this gorgeous slipcased set is an impressive uptodate Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artists death in 2010 Together the two volumes comprise the most complete portrait of the life work and thought of this seminal figure
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JeanFrançois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994 at her studio in Brooklyn But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995 under one condition she would destroy the photographs if she didnt like them Jaussaud agreed to it and passed the test He was then given carte blanche to photograph her studio and her house in Chelsea and he kept coming back for another eleven years Jaussauds photographs of Louise Bourgeois in her house and studio are a moving testimony showing how completely implicated in her work she was to the point that her private life and her work were inextricably interwoven
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Introduces the life of renowned modern artist Louise Bourgeois who is known primarily for her sculptures
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