Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois: A Comprehensive Overview of the Artist's Groundbreaking Work. This accessible paperback presents the most complete overview of Louise Bourgeois's sculptures, textiles, and prints. The artist's diverse body of work encompasses a range of themes, including spiders, cages, architectural sculptures, fragile human figures, and amorphous erotic forms. Strongly influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism, Bourgeois remains one of the most prominent female contemporary artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book features encyclopedic entries on key themes and concepts in Bourgeois's practice, as well as a glossary of terms with excerpts from interviews, diary entries, texts, and over 300 illustrations. These resources provide multiple points of entry into Bourgeois's complex and nonlinear world, making this an invaluable resource for anyone interested in her work. With contributions from acclaimed authors and critics, including Julia Kristeva, Elisabeth Lebovici, Frances Morris, Mignon Nixon, Linda Nochlin, Robert Storr, Alex Potts, Marina Warner, and Deborah Wye, this book offers a comprehensive overview of Bourgeois's career, covering individual works, art movements, other artists, and themes that have played an important role in her life and art.