Louise Bourgeois | |
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 Louise Bourgeois photographed by Oliver Mark, New York, 1996 | |
| Born | Louise Joséphine Bourgeois 25 December 1911 Paris, France |
| Died | 31 May 2010 (aged 98) New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | French, American |
| Education | |
| Known for | |
| Notable work | Spider, Cells, Maman, Cumul I, The Destruction of the Father |
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| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Jean-Louis Bourgeois |
| Awards | Praemium Imperiale |
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)[1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious.[2] These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
- ^ Deborah, Wye (2017). Louise Bourgeois : An Unfolding Portrait : Prints, Books, and the Creative Process. Lowry, Glenn D.,, Gorovoy, Jerry,, Harlan, Felix,, Shiff, Ben,, Kang, Sewon,, Bourgeois, Louise, 1911–2010. New York: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-1-63345-041-7. OCLC 973157279.
- ^ Christiane., Weidemann (2008). 50 women artists you should know. Larass, Petra., Klier, Melanie, 1970–. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-3956-6. OCLC 195744889.