Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter

Author: Philip Larratt-Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300247249
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
An exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and artistic ambition--and generated inspiration for her artwork. Examining the impact of psychoanalysis on Bourgeois's work, this volume offers insight into her creative process. Philip Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois's literary archivist, provides an overview of the artist's life and work and the ways in which the psychoanalytic process informed her artistic practice. An essay by Juliet Mitchell offers a cutting-edge feminist psychoanalyst's viewpoint on the artist's long and complex relationship with therapy. In addition, a short text written by Bourgeois (first published in 1991) addresses Freud's own relationship to art and artists. Featuring excerpts from Bourgeois's copious diaries, rarely seen notebook pages, and archival family photographs, Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter opens exciting new avenues for understanding an innovative, influential, and groundbreaking artist whose wide-ranging work includes not only renowned large-scale sculptures but also a plethora of paintings and prints.

Louise Bourgeois

Author: Louise Bourgeois
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789186243661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Fantastic Reality

Author: Mignon Nixon
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262140898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
A critical study of Louise Bourgeois's art from the 1940s to the 1980s: its departure from surrealism and its dialogue with psychoanalysis.

Intimate Geometries

Author: Robert Storr
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580933637
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 829

Book Description
In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art launched an extraordinarily productive late career, making her a much-honored and vivid presence on the international art scene until her death in 2010 at the age of 98. Trained as a painter and printmaker, Bourgeois embraced sculpture as her primary medium and experimented with a range of materials over the years, including marble, plaster, bronze, wood, and latex. Bourgeois contributed significantly to Surrealism, Postminimalist, and installation art, but her work always remained fiercely independent of style or movement. With more than 1000 illustrations, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois comprehensively surveys her immense oeuvre in unmatched depth. Writing from a uniquely intimate perspective, as a close personal friend of Bourgeois, and drawing on decades of research, Robert Storr critically evaluates her achievements and reveals the complexity and passion of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Cloth Lullaby

Author: Amy Novesky
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613129165
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Award-winning creators, Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault, present a picture book biography of a beloved artist in Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise’s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois’s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. “With evocative, gorgeous illustrations and an inspirational story of an artist not often covered in children’s literature, this arresting volume is an excellent addition to nonfiction picture book collections, particularly those lacking titles about women artists.” —Booklist, starred review

Louise Bourgeois

Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711246890
Category : Women artists
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Louise Bourgeois tells the inspiring story of this talented sculpture artist.

The Prints of Louise Bourgeois

Author: Deborah Wye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870701535
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.

Louise Bourgeois

Author: Louise Bourgeois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Installations (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Louise Bourgeois

Author: Louise Bourgeois
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783883755977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Louise Bourgeois

Author: Louise Bourgeois
Publisher: Damiani Limited
ISBN: 9788862086448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Spirals are a recurring motif in the work of Louise Bourgeois, including her sculpture, painting, and drawings from as early as the 50s through 2010 the year of her death. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? The spiral is simultaneously "the fear of losing control" and the experience of "giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself." In another book Bourgeois is quoted as saying "The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and wring them... Later I would dream of my father's mistress. I would do it in my dreams by wringing her neck. The spiral -- I love the spiral -- represents control and freedom." In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor, and gouache, Bourgeois investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite whorls, wobbly orbits to chiseled vortices, twisted columns to coiling snakes, staircases, and pyramids. The cursive blue-paper word drawings, in English and French, complement the purely visual works by conveying the spirit of Bourgeois' poetry in extraordinary pictorial forms.