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Louise Bourgeois : the woven child / curated by Ralph Rugoff with Julienne Lorz.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022Description: 207 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783775751490
Other title:
  • Woven child
Contained works:
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / Ralph Rugoff and Stephanie Rosenthal -- Mechanisms of ambiguity and sensation: the late fabric sculptures of Louise Bourgeois / Ralph Rugoff -- Weaving, materials and metaphor / Lynne Cooke -- The fabricated woman / Rachel Cusk -- Acts of reparation: spiders, needles and cells in the work of Louise Bourgeois / Julienne Lorz -- PLATES. Figures -- Torsos -- Heads -- Cells -- Poles -- Towers -- Late vitrines -- Fabric drawings -- Books/Suites -- Works on paper -- Collages, plaques and prints -- List of exhibited works -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements and exhibition credits -- Image credits and references.
Summary: A comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bedlinen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological states.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 9th February-15th May, 2022; and Gropius Bau, Berlin, 22nd July-23rd October, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Ralph Rugoff and Stephanie Rosenthal -- Mechanisms of ambiguity and sensation: the late fabric sculptures of Louise Bourgeois / Ralph Rugoff -- Weaving, materials and metaphor / Lynne Cooke -- The fabricated woman / Rachel Cusk -- Acts of reparation: spiders, needles and cells in the work of Louise Bourgeois / Julienne Lorz -- PLATES. Figures -- Torsos -- Heads -- Cells -- Poles -- Towers -- Late vitrines -- Fabric drawings -- Books/Suites -- Works on paper -- Collages, plaques and prints -- List of exhibited works -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements and exhibition credits -- Image credits and references.

A comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bedlinen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological states.

Specialized.