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Item Number: 135466
Title: Mumling Beauty : LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Author: Van Gelder, Alex ; Hans Ulrich Obrist
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500093917
Description: New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 29cm., hardcover, 112pp., 75 photos. Summary: From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her privateworld—her studio and home—and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested,waited—mischievous, or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to theend. She fills the camera with her presence. It is a profound portrait of an artist ofthe utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age. Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era,and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern andpostmodern eras, including minimalism, installation art, and body art. However, shedid not achieve fame until after her seventieth year, discovered and heralded by anew generation. Once discovered, her reputation grew in the 1980s, ’90s, and 2000swith an array of major international exhibitions and a burst of creativity. Throughout,her art is confessional, psychological, and fraught with fear, anger, and sexuality. Van Gelder’s collaborative portrait is in many ways a message from Bourgeois tothe world, her chosen epitaph, scrawled in her own way by gesture, expression, andposture. Despite the frailty and decrepitude of her near one hundred years, she defiesher vulnerability.

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