Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French sculptor and plastic artist, naturalized American, is one of the major artists of the end of the 1938th and the beginning of the XNUMXst century. Arriving in New York in XNUMX, she crosses paths with surrealism, imported by European artists in exile, then the great currents of post-war American art, creating a work based on memory and the intimacy of emotions. Entirely autobiographical, his personal language incorporates all materials and all forms, touching on the most contemporary practices.

After successive periods of success and withdrawal, Louise Bourgeois rose to prominence in 1982 during her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Throughout a career spanning nearly seventy years, she has created a rich and always innovative body of work. Although painting, drawing, printmaking and performance also have their place in her work, the artist is best known for her sculptures, whether they are intimate (Woman-house, Fillette) or monumental (Maman, Spider) . Today collected in the largest museums in the world, the complex and protean work of Louise Bourgeois continues to fascinate the young generation of artists and critics.

The author

Writer, artist and art critic, Robert Storr has been the director of the Yale University School of Art since 2006. Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings and Sculptures at MOMA (New York) from 1990 to 2002, he was the first director American at the Venice Biennale in 2007. In addition to the many books he has devoted to the contemporary art scene (Gerhard Richter, Nancy Spero, Chuck Close), he writes for newspapers and magazines, including Art in America, Artforum, Art Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Interview, Parkett, Art Press, Frieze magazine.

Pratical information

• Volume: Connected with case and handles
• 280 x 330 mm format
• 900 pictures
• 752 pages
• Price: 198 €
• Nuart: 4855772
• ISBN: 9782754108386
• On sale: October 03, 2016