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Louise Bourgeois

By Frances Morris (Editor), Marie-Laure Bernadec (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9781854376879

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Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois began her career as a painter but switched to sculpture after her first solo exhibition in 1945. Her drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints are almost obsessively autobiographical, depicting her concern with human isolation and with issues of gender. She has frequContinue

Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois began her career as a painter but switched to sculpture after her first solo exhibition in 1945. Her drawings, paintings, sculptures, and prints are almost obsessively autobiographical, depicting her concern with human isolation and with issues of gender. She has frequently stated that her personal style has evolved from her emotions. This book includes texts about the artist and her work, particularly focusing on four giant sculptures being prepared for the Unilever Series in the huge turbine hall at the heart of Tate Modern. There are also extracts from a lively interview recently conducted with the artist in her New York studio.

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  • Don’t you cut your lunch up when you’re ready to eat it?

    Louise Bourgeois is one of the two pre-eminent sculptors working today; the other is Richard Serra, whose sculpture – single-minded, monolithic, public – offers the most striking contrast to hers in both form and content. Serra is Isaiah Berlin’s hed ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

  • Daring and Disturbing

    Perhaps the most amazing of the many remarkable aspects of Louise Bourgeois is that if she had died in her middle seventies we would not have known how daring, strange, ambitious, or disturbing an artist she could be. We would not have known how live ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 185437687X
  • ISBN-13: 9781854376879
  • Publisher: Tate Publishing
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1742 mm x 1355 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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