Name/Title
Louise Bourgeois : an unfolding portrait : prints, books, and the creative processEntry/Object ID
N9500.B68.W9Description
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Louis Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018. Catalog explores this celebrated artist's prints and books, a little known but highly significant part of Bourgeois's larger practice. Her copious production in these mediums - addressing themes that perennially occupied her, including memory, trauma, and the body - is examined here within the context of related sculptures, drawings, and paintings. This investigation sheds light on Bourgeois's creative process, which is uniquely and vividly apparent through the evolving states and variants of her prints; seeing these sequences unfold is akin to looking over the artist's shoulder as she worked. Catalog features an insightful essay by curator (and longtime friend of the artist) Deborah Wye, examining Bourgeois's involvement with these mediums alongside the developments of her long life and career. Interviews with three of the artist's close collaborators further illuminate her artistic practice and output, some three hundred examples of which are presented in this volume.Lexicon
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artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, women artistsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Deborah Wye, Glenn D. LowryPublisher
Museum of Modern ArtDate Published
2017Call No.
N9500.B68.W9ISBN
1633450414, 9781633450417LCCN
2017941898Notes
Length: 248