Research Catalog

Title

Louise Bourgeois : les têtes bleues et les femmes rouges / Louise Bourgeois ; essay: Philip Larratt-Smith.

Author

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010

Publication

• Brussels : Xavier Hufkens, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Larratt-Smith, Philip
• Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels, Belgium), host institution.

Description

73 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Xavier Hufkens is pleased to announce an exhibition of late fabric sculptures and gouaches by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). For Louise Bourgeois, fabric and sewing held great symbolic significance. Born into a family of tapestry restorers, she was surrounded by textiles as a child, and was witness to her mother's constant efforts at conservation and repair. Bourgeois also helped in the atelier, drawing in the missing parts of tapestries that needed reweaving. The artist came to associate sewing with reconstruction, reparation and reconciliation. In contrast to her earlier bodies of work, in which aggressive acts of separation, like cutting and carving, were predominant, Bourgeois's late work focused on joining elements together, a restorative act that helped to dispel anxiety and her life-long fear of abandonment.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Têtes bleues et les femmes rouges
• Têtes bleues et les femmes rouges

Subject

• Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 > Exhibitions
• Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010
• 2000-2099
• Watercolor painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Soft sculpture > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held from 11 September-31 October 2015 at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789491245145
• 9491245147

OCLC

• 934618029
• SCSB-10154027

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library