Louise Bourgeois and the Nature of Abstraction

Gorovoy, Jerry

Arts & Photography

Robert Miller Gallery

<p>Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. Contributions by Jennifer Bloomer. Text by Mieke Bal, Lynne Cooke, Beatriz Colomina, Jerry Gorovoy, Christiane Terrisse, Danielle Tilkin, Josef Helfenstein.</p>

Louise Bourgeois: Memory And Architecture

Tilkin, Danielle

Colomina, Beatriz

BAL, MIEKE

Cooke, Lynne

Helfenstein, Josef

Terrisse, Christiane

Bourgeois, Louise

Individual Artists

Editorial Palacios y Museos

"My goal is to re-experience a past emotion...to relive anxiety anxiety is a passive state, and the object is to be active and take control," stated Louise Bourgeois about her practice, which spanned more than 60 years and a variety of media. This beautifully produced, limited-edition book is a rare glimpse at over 40 of Bourgeois' works, mostly drawings from a private Swiss collection, which are richly reproduced and juxtaposed with excerpts from her journal. The diary entries highlight Bourgeois' method of mining her past as part of her practice, but the work itself draws heavily from an impressive breadth of historical and contemporary art. These works, produced from 1939 to 2002, also provide a new look at the evolution of one of this century's most important artists--who has stopped being innovative and inspiring to her peers. Her defiance in the face of all of twentieth-century art movements is legendary.

Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days & Pink Days

Fondazione Prada,Italy

<p>One of this UK's pre-eminent artists, Louise Bourgeois is a unique figure in contemporary art. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois spent most of her career receiving little recognition from the art community. She has worked closely to many of the century's key artistic moments, from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism to feminist-inspired art, and yet remains distinct from all these. An extraordinarily influential sculptor, she has worked, often experimentally, with materials varying from alabaster, plaster, latex, bronze, and marble to found objects. She is equally admired for her intimate drawings at times combining fragments of text (featured at Documenta 11, 2002) with her highly personal writings, which often address her long and complex life story. With the combined backdrops of a conflicted family upbringing and her father's tapestry restoring business (whose weaving provides a recurring symbol in her work); her struggles as an artist in a world reserved for men; as well as her ex</p>

Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days

Asbaghi, Pandora Tabatabai

Fondazione Prada

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