Louise Bourgeois
1911–2010
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In Tate Modern
In the Studio: International Surrealism
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In Tate Liverpool
Constellations: Max Ernst
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In Tate Britain
Biography
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] (listen); 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) 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 subconscious. 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 much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
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Louise Bourgeois Maman
1999
Louise Bourgeois Spider
1994
Louise Bourgeois Fillette (Sweeter Version)
1968–99, cast 2001
Louise Bourgeois 10 am is When You Come to Me
2006
Louise Bourgeois Cell (Eyes and Mirrors)
1989–93
Louise Bourgeois Janus Fleuri
1968
Louise Bourgeois Nature Study
1986
Louise Bourgeois Mamelles
1991, cast 2001
Artist as subject
Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Bourgeois
1982, printed 1991
Louise Bourgeois Woman in Bathtub
1994
Louise Bourgeois Sewing
1994
Film and audio
TateShots
Louise Bourgeois: 'I transform hate into love'
We take an intimate look at the life and work of this French artist
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ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Lucy Askew (Senior Curator), Jerry Gorovoy (President of The Easton Foundation) and Anthony d’Offay (ex-officio curator of ARTIST ROOMS ...
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ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois - Episodes
'Episodes', a performance event featuring original costumes by 3rd year Performance Costume Design students from Edinburgh College of Art and ...
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Louise Bourgeois: Taking down the Towers and Spider
Louise Bourgeois' vast installation 'I Do, I Undo, I Redo' was the first commission in The Unilever Series for Tate ...
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Louise Bourgeois conference – Part 1
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Louise Bourgeois conference – Part 2
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The Art of Louise Bourgeois
Home, family, sexuality and mortality... find out more about the powerful themes behind Bourgeois's art
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New Voices: Speaking in Half-Whispers
Getting under the skin of Dorothea Tanning's enigmatic painting, A Mi-Voix 1958
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Feminist art
Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early ...
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Abject art
Abject art is used to describe artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety ...
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'Despite all my rage, / I'm still just a rat in a cage!'
Cages, cells and small rooms – the notion of the contained space has been used to great effect by artists over ...
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Lumps, bumps, bulbs, bubbles, bulges, slits, turds, coils, craters, wrinkles and holes
Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern
Tate Papers
Curating by Numbers: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ...
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Dear Louise: Louise Bourgeois
Two artists who know Louise Bourgeois talk about how she has played a part in their lives.
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No questions please: Louise Bourgeois II
For many years Louise Bourgeois conducted a monthly salon from her house in New York. It was a chance to ...
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Tate Etc. issue 11: Autumn 2007
Tate Etc. Issue 11: Autumn 2007 full contents including contributions from Antonia Fraser and Louise Bourgeois; online version of Tate ...
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