Louise Bourgeois Livres

Louise Bourgeois präsentiert „Receuil des Secrets de Louise Bourgeois (1635)“. Edition Ex Libris No. 8 Die große alte Dame der amerikanischen Kunst, die 93-jährige Louise Bourgeois, hat für die Edition Ex Libris das erste von einer Frau veröffentlichte medizinische Buch (Frauen- und Kinderheilkunde, Geburtshilfe) ausgewählt. Die Verfasserin des Buches, die Hebamme Louise Bourgeois, stand zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts im Dienste des französischen Königs. Durch den von der Künstlerin gestalteten Umschlag wird dieses Reprint zum Künstlerbuch und hilft gleichzeitig, das um die Themenkreise Leiblichkeit und Weiblichkeit kreisende künstlerischen Schaffens von Louise Bourgeois in einem neuen Licht zu sehen. Buch mit einer lose beiliegenden, signierten farbigen Grafik. Auflage: 300 signiert, numeriert € 150,- Louise Bourgeois Ex Libris #8 'de luxe' „Receuil des Secrets de Louise Bourgeois (1635)“ Kaltnadelradierung 'BE CALM', 20 x 13 cm, zusammen mit einem Exemplar des Buches (Ex Libris sign., num.) in bearbeiteter Lederkassette mit goldener Titel- und Rückenprägung. Auflage: 40 signiert und nummeriert. € 1.500,00

Late textile works by the artist who helped pioneer the sculptural use of fabric in art This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). “I’ve always had a fascination with the needle,” she once 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 bed linen, 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.

This fascinating diary by Louise Bourgeois, a midwife in 17th century France, offers an intimate look into the birth of Louis XIII. With a wealth of practical detail and personal observations, it provides a unique perspective on an important moment in French history. Whether you're a historian, a student of women's health, or simply enjoy a good story, this book is a captivating read.

Features pinks, purples, reds and blues that describe bodies comprising swollen bellies, heavy breasts, engorged phalluses and stooped torsos.

Features approximately 80 writings by Louise Bourgeois, which, combined with eight extensive scholarly essays turns our critical understanding of Bourgeois work on its head. This title shows the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in her life and work.

Spirals are a recurring motif in the work of Louise Bourgeois, including her sculpture, painting, and drawings from as early as the 50s through 2010 the year of her death. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? The spiral is simultaneously "the fear of losing control" and the experience of "giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself." In another book Bourgeois is quoted as saying "The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and wring them... Later I would dream of my father's mistress. I would do it in my dreams by wringing her neck. The spiral -- I love the spiral -- represents control and freedom." In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor, and gouache, Bourgeois investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite whorls, wobbly orbits to chiseled vortices, twisted columns to coiling snakes, staircases, and pyramids. The cursive blue-paper word drawings, in English and French, complement the purely visual works by conveying the spirit of Bourgeois' poetry in extraordinary pictorial forms.