Spirals are a recurring motif in the work of Louise Bourgeois, including her sculpture, painting, and drawings from as early as the 50s through 2010 the year of her death. It has two directions. Where do you place yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? The spiral is simultaneously "the fear of losing control" and the experience of "giving up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself." In another book Bourgeois is quoted as saying "The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and wring them... Later I would dream of my father's mistress. I would do it in my dreams by wringing her neck. The spiral - I love the spiral - represents control and freedom." In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor, and gouache, Bourgeois investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite whorls, wobbly orbits to chiseled vortices, twisted columns to coiling snakes, staircases, and pyramids. The cursive blue-paper word drawings, in English and French, complement the purely visual works by conveying the spirit of Bourgeois' poetry in extraordinary pictorial forms.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Damiani
ISBN-10
886208644x
ISBN-13
9788862086448
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038579542
Product Key Features
Book Title
Louise Bourgeois: the Spiral
Author
Louise Bourgeois
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / Monographs, American / General
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
84 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12.1 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N6853
Reviews
From the shape of galaxies to that of a snail's shell, from some of the oldest petroglyphs to the art of Hilma af Klint, the spiral is ubiquitous in art and nature and transfixing to the human eye. Louise Bourgeois's fascination with its swirling geometry was enough to warrant Spiral, an entire volume devoted to her myriad inventions upon this archetypal form.
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Dewey Edition
23
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