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Louise Bourgeois
The Fabric Works
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Ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary art, textile artistry, and those fascinated by Louise Bourgeois's transformative use of materials and memory in her work. Suitable for students, scholars, and collectors interested in 20th-century and modern art history.
Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. This title collects this set of images in its entirety.
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A groundbreaking work edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and her New York studio that enriches our knowledge of Louise Bourgeois.
Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. It is as much a reincarnation of her past and her childhood as a confirmation of her relationship with memory.
Her visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood.
Further development of the artist's work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created "The Fabric Drawings," astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions. This set of images is collected here in its entirety for the first time, constituting the closest thing yet to a general catalogue.
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ISBN: 9788857206547
Publisher: Skira
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 October 2010
Country: Italy
Imprint: Skira
Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 240.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 2240g
Pages: 336
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Germano Celant, PhD in contemporary art and theory, is the author of more than 100 publications. He is also the curator of hundreds of exhibitions in the most prominent international museums and institutions.
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