Louise Bourgeois: Sculpter sa vie, Femme-couteau (biographie)

Marie-Laure Bernadac

Flammarion, 2019

32,00

Louise Bourgeois is par excellence the knife-woman, the woman sculptor, the one who cuts, cuts, shears, but also the one that embodies the female-male ambivalence: protection and threat, fragility and strength, tenderness and violence.Born in 1911 in Paris, and having lived in New York from 1938 until her death in 2010, she became, after a late recognition, one of the most emblematic artists of the twentieth century. His polymorphic work, composed of paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures, installations, is profoundly autobiographical and escapes any aesthetic classification. By reactivating the memories and traumas of her childhood, Louise Bourgeois gives shape and body to her emotions, creating an organic, sensual and erotic work whose essential theme is the woman-house. “The sculpture is the body and my body is a sculpture. This biography does not only retrace the career of a great artist, her training, her influences; it is also the story of an exceptional woman’s life, having known both wars, exile, wife of a famous art historian, and mother of three children. She draws on the artist’s unpublished personal archives, her diaries, her correspondence, her psychoanalytic writings, as well as interviews and interviews with her relatives. IN FRENCH

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ISBN: 9782081330313

528 pages, 24 x 15 cm, bl/w illustrations, hardcover, French