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Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

Davies, Clare
Fer, Briony

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ISBN10: 1588397483
ISBN13: 9781588397485
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 172
Weight: 2.41
Height: 0.92 Width: 9.39 Depth: 10.30
Language: English
An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois's early years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice

The catalog Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, and the revelatory exhibition, . . . were overseen by Clare Davies, who has commissioned an insightful essay from the art historian Briony Fer. But there's another bonus: Beyond the paintings in the show, the catalog reproduces around 25 more, meaning that three-quarters of Bourgeois's contribution to modern painting can now be seen in one place.--Roberta Smith, New York Times, Best Art Books of 2022

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known are the paintings she produced 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--the focus of this groundbreaking publication--show how Bourgeois evolved her deeply personal artistic lexicon, and how the themes and motifs she explored in her paintings coalesced into symbols of her sculptural practice. Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key element to our understanding of this crucial artist's career.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

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