Louise Bourgeois
Subtitle: an unfolding portrait : prints, books, and the creative process
By: Deborah Wye ; foreword by Glenn D. Lowry
Contributors: Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword; Gorovoy, Jerry, interviewee; Harlan, Felix, interviewee; Shiff, Ben, interviewee; Kang, Sewon, organizer; Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010, artist; Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781633450417
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women artists; Catalogs; Exhibitions; Women sculptors; Interviews; French Prints; Themes, motives; Biography
Other titles: Unfolding portrait
Description: "'Louise Bourgeois : An Unfolding Portrait' 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. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue 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."

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait' explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). Bourgeois's printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,400 printed compositions, created primarily in the last two decades of her life but also at the beginning of her career, in the 1940s. Over the course of her career, Bourgeois constantly revisited the themes of her art, all of which emerged from emotions she struggled with for a lifetime. Also, she said there was no rivalry between the mediums in which she worked, noting that they say the same thing in different ways. Here, her prints and illustrated books will be seen in the context of related sculptures, drawings, and paintings, and within thematic groupings that explore motifs of architecture, the body, and nature, as well as investigations of abstraction and works made from old garments and household fabrics. Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States (24.09.2017 - 28.01.2018).
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-242) and index.

"Louis Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait" : September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry; title: Introduction : "time stopped, time remembered, time recreated" : Louise Bourgeois : prints and books / Deborah Wye; title: THEMES AND VARIATIONS. Architecture embodied; title: Abstracted emotions; title: Fabric of memory; title: Alone and together; title: Forces of nature; title: Lasting impressions; title: WORKING RELATIONSHIPS. Jerry Gorovoy, Assistant; title: Felix Harlan of Harlan & Weaver, Inc., Printer; title: Benjamin Shiff of Osiris, Publisher.