Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture

by Gorovoy, Jerry

• ISBN13: 9788480031882
• ISBN10: 8480031883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Actar-D

Summary

Louise Bourgeois has been on a journey inspired by architecture for six decades, from the early realistic drawings of interiors she made upon her arrival in New York in the late 1930s, to the plaster Lairs of the 1960s, to the Cells and recent commissioned works of the 1990s In her figurative work she has drawn, painted, printed, and sculpted everything from skyscrapers, courthouses, and greenhouses to labyrinths, sanatoriums, towers, nests and of course the many different houses and buildings she has lived in over the years. Throughout her career Bourgeois' work has always had a strong and essential autobiographical element -- and this book illuminates an area of her life that has heavily informed her work, in addition to exploring the relationship of her sculpture to architectural forms.

Table of Contents

There's No Place Like Home	15	(19)
Jerry Gorovoy
Danielle Tilkin
Louise Bourgeois: Architecture as a Study in Memory	19	(10)
Joseph Helfenstein
The Architecture of Trauma	29	(24)
Beatriz Colomina
Louise Bourgeois: Woman at Work	53	(10)
Christiane Terrisse
Farewell to the Doll House	63	(12)
Lynne Cooke
Beckoning Bernini	75	(12)
Mieke Bal
Passages Impliques	87	(18)
Jennifer Bloomer
Plates	105	(170)
Works in the Exhibition	275	(6)
Chronology	281	(25)
Solo Exhibitions	306	(5)
Bibliography, Videotapes and Others	311