Louise Bourgeois
The recently deceased French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the last century. Her fleshy blobs, skeletal spiders and the aggressive fragility of her work offered a new solution to the antagonism between the figurative and the abstract that had previously been part and parcel of modernism. Bourgeois herself provided a unique interpretive level to modern art through the uses she made of childhood trauma, family life and sexuality. This...
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Edited by Lionel Bovier, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
"Art, no less than wisdom, waits on life." Intorno a Louise Bourgeois: temi, immagini e persone11Louise Bourgeois, Femme-Temps262Declarations by the artist279Notes to biography280Sources282List of works284Appendix286Photographic credits306
