Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and moved to New York City in 1938. She is considered to be one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings, monumental installations, and graphic work form a polymorphic ensemble that defies any singular aesthetic classification. Bourgeois applies this rich diversity to autobiographical expression. Her preferred themes-the masculine / feminine polarity, the body, and sexuality-make Bourgeois' work an essential reference for contemporary art.
Cloth Lullaby
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 ins
Louise Bourgeois
The catalogue contains an essay by Amei Wallach, art critic, author, filmmaker, and television
Louise Bourgeois Spider
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 them—architecture, 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 t
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