Louise Bourgeois : an unfolding portrait : prints, books, and the creative process / Deborah Wye ; foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.

By:

Wye, Deborah [author,, interviewer,, organizer.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 28 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1633450414
9781633450417

Other title:

Unfolding portrait

Contained works:

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. Works. Selections

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

730.92 BOU 23

LOC classification:

N6490
N6537.B645 W94 2017

Contents:

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction : "time stopped, time remembered, time recreated" : Louise Bourgeois : prints and books / Deborah Wye -- THEMES AND VARIATIONS. Architecture embodied -- Abstracted emotions -- Fabric of memory -- Alone and together -- Forces of nature -- Lasting impressions -- WORKING RELATIONSHIPS. Jerry Gorovoy, Assistant -- Felix Harlan of Harlan & Weaver, Inc., Printer -- Benjamin Shiff of Osiris, Publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	730.92 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	30/06/2020	39002100632141

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first publication to fully survey Louise Bourgeois's printmaking, a major component of her artistic practice.

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints, books and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois whose printed oeuvre, while lesser known than other aspects of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,400 printed compositions. Over the course of her career, Bourgeois constantly revisited the themes and motifs of her art - all of which emerged from troubling emotions she struggled with for a lifetime. This investigation reveals the creative process underlying her artistic practice through evolving states for print compositions, as well as through the juxtaposition of works in different mediums and from different periods of her long career. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the book features over 250 prints organized thematically and placed within the context of the artist's sculpture, drawings and paintings. The book also sheds light on the collaborative relationships between Bourgeois and her printmaking associates who often came to her home studio to work with her there - sometimes on a daily basis - pulling trial proofs from printing presses she kept in her basement. Interviews with Bourgeois's primary assistant, with whom she worked for decades, as well as with a printer and a publisher, each of whom helped foster her creative engagement with the medium, provide insight into her working process.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Louis Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-242) and index.

"Louis Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait" : September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States.

Text in English.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Deborah Wye is the Chief Curator Emerita of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Jerry Gorovoy is the president of The Easton Foundation, and was Bourgeois' long-time assistant.

Felix Harlan, a printer in the New York-based workshop, Harlan & Weaver, collaborated with the artist from 1989 until the last year of her life.

Benjamin Shiff is the director of Osiris, with whom Bourgeois published many important print projects.