Louise Bourgeois
Subtitle: drawings & observations
By: by Louise Bourgeois with Lawrence Rinder ; foreword by Josef Helfenstein.
Contributors: Rinder, Lawrence.; University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.; Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley; Bulfinch Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-; Bourgeois, Louise, 1911- -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Drawings & observations
Description: Though known primarily for her sculpture, Louise Bourgeois has displayed a lifelong passion for drawing and considers it to be essential to her oeuvre. This exceptional book is the first to combine over fifty years of the artist's drawings with her own observations. Not merely preparatory studies for her sculptures, Bourgeois's drawings are fully realized, independent works of art that rank as some of her most powerful and emotive creations.

In the text accompanying the illustrations, Bourgeois, a highly autobiographical artist, describes and explains the sources for each work - and in the process provides fascinating insights into her life and art.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Louise Bourgeois: drawings" held in the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley, 24 January-24 March 1996; and the Drawing Center, New York, April-May, 1996.