Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment by Rales, Emily Wei - 2018

Potomac, Maryland: Glenstone Museum, 2018. Hardcover. VG (scuffs to cloth boards). Blue cloth boards with white inset and white lettering. 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits. The trailblazing work of French - born American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be the subject of a five-decade survey exhibition featuring more than 30 works, all from Glenstone's collection, including a recently acquired master piece that was realized at a pivotal moment in her career: the 1974 installation "The Destruction of the Father." On view in the exhibition will be a selection of early wooden "Personage" sculptures; pieces in bronze, marble, plaster, and rubber; suites of drawings and prints; textile-based works; and room-like installations that she called "Cells." In these works Bourgeois forged a unique vocabulary, powerfully and idiosyncratically expressing psychic states and emotions such as anger, fear, and loneliness, and often evoking a sense of disquiet about the strangeness of the… Read More

Voorlinden / Glenstone Foundation 2018 2018. Hardcover, 212 pages, English / Nederlands , 305 x 245 mm, book in new state, with coloured illustrations / photo's. ISBN 9780999802915. Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911-2010) explorations of the human condition originated from her own lived experience. My goal is to relive a past emotion, Bourgeois explained. My art is an exorcism. Psychologically, emotionally and often sexually charged, Bourgeois' works intermingle the abstract and corporeal, the voluptuous and the distressing, to striking effect. Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment accompanies the first exhibition of the artist's work at Glenstone Museum, and features more than 30 major works drawn from the museum's collection. From her early wooden Personages to her large hanging sculptures, from suites of drawings and prints to… Read More