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Louise Bourgeois in Conversation
Author: Suzanne Isabelle Trimble (aka Bella Land) DOI: 10.1080/09528820903371180 Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year Published in: Third Text, Volume 23, Issue 6 November 2009 , pages 779 - 788 Subjects: Contemporary Art; Regional Art; Visual Arts; Visual Culture; Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English) Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions In order to give pricing details we need to know your country. Please register and/or sign in to identify your country. Sign In Online Sample View Article: View Article (PDF) View Article (HTML)
Abstract
Louise Bourgeois has forged her own idiosyncratic aesthetic language over the course of more than eighty years of artistic practice. Her virtuosity in articulating difficult psycho-emotional themes through sculpture, installation, drawing, text, mixed media and performance has inspired generations of artists to draw on their own personal experience as a driving force in their artistic production.
In this brief yet poignant conversation, granted in February of 2009, Bourgeois shares insights on being an artist, on longevity and on life's purpose. A rarely stated spiritual perspective emerges, revealing a more positive portrait of Bourgeois than has commonly been perceived. Keywords: Louise Bourgeois; self-portraiture; catharsis; geometry in art; La Rivire Gentille; surrealism; Femme Maison; Father and Son; art of the unconscious; longevity
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