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Louise Bourgeois : paintings

Title
Louise Bourgeois : paintings / Clare Davies, Briony Fer.
Publication
  • New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Davies, Clare, 1980-
  • Fer, Briony
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010.
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution
  • New Orleans Museum of Art, host institution
Description
171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 27 cm
Summary
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known-and the focus of this publication-is the body of paintings produced by the artist between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional media in 1949. Crucial to her artistic practice, these early works-rarely seen or exhibited-show Bourgeois's deeply personal artistic lexicon. Themes and motifs explored in her paintings coalesced into those that she would continue to mine during her decades-long career: the clock, the spiral, the Femme Maison (a woman's body with a house for a head), and the columnar figures that heralded her totemic Personage sculptures. Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, the book's essays and illustrated chronology explore Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s-transformed by the arrival of European Surrealists and the emergence of the New York School-and her development of a pictorial language combining abstraction, figuration, and storytelling. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (11.04. - 07.08.2022) / New Orleans Museum of Art, USA (08.09.2022 - 08.01.2023).
Uniform Title
Louis Bourgeois (Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.))
Alternative Title
Paintings
Subject
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 > Exhibitions
  • Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 11 through August 7, 2022, and the New Orleans Museum of Art from September 8, 2022, through January 8, 2023"-- Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162), filmography (page 162), and index.
Contents
Introduction. A visual lexicon of displacement / Clare Davies -- A decade of painting. Enter with caution / Briony Fer -- Seeing red / Briony Fer -- Plates -- Chronology, 1911 to 1953 / Clare Davies.
Call Number
JQF 22-1403
ISBN
  • 9781588397485
  • 1588397483
LCCN
2022289108
OCLC
1265085697
Title
Louise Bourgeois : paintings / Clare Davies, Briony Fer.
Publisher
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162), filmography (page 162), and index.
Added Author
Container of (work): Davies, Clare, 1980- Visual lexicon of displacement.
Container of (work): Fer, Briony. Decade of painting.
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. Works. Selections.
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010, artist.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.
New Orleans Museum of Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-1403
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