Louise Bourgeois : the woven child / [curated by Ralph Rugoff with Julienne Lorz]
Contributor(s): Bourgeois, Louise [artist]
| Rugoff, Ralph [organizer] | Lorz, Julienne [organizer] | Hayward Gallery [host institution] | Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) [host institution].
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BookPublisher: Berlin : London : Hatje Cantz Verlag ; Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 207 pages, 160 pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783775751490 (paperback); 3775751491 (paperback).Other title: Woven child.Subject(s): Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 -- Exhibitions | Soft sculpture -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Women artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Women sculptors -- United States -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 709.2 BOU | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.2 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 01/03/2024 | 00232236 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. "I've always had a fascination with the needle," she said, "the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness." 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. The catalog - which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London and the Gropius Bau, Berlin - features works from numerous series, including the monumental Cell installations, figurative sculptures, and abstract drawings.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, February 9-May 15, 2022; and Gropius Bau, Berlin, July 22-October 23, 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.
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. The catalogue - which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Gropius Bau, Berlin - features works from numerous series, including the monumental Cell installations, figurative sculptures, and abstract drawings" - publisher's description.