Louise Bourgeois
1911–2010
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In the Studio: International Surrealism
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Constellations: Louise Bourgeois
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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 Mamelles
1991, cast 2001
Louise Bourgeois Couple I
1996
Artist as subject
Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Bourgeois
1982, printed 1991
Louise Bourgeois Sewing
1994
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Louise Bourgeois | TateShots
We take an intimate look at the life and work of Louise Bourgeois
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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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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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Speaking in Half-Whispers: by Emily LaBarge
Getting under the skin of Dorothea Tanning's enigmatic painting, A Mi-Voix
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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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New Tate Modern to open with dedicated gallery to ARTIST ROOMS to be inaugurated with Louise Bourgeois exhibition
13 Jan 2016
Press release announcing Louise Bourgeois as the first artist to be shown in the new ARTIST ROOMS space at Tate ...
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ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois inspired outreach in Southampton
This blog looks at how the ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery inspired outreach projects with ...
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Fashion icons of the art world
With London Fashion Week starting today, what better time to pay homage to the fashionistas of the Tate Collection? Take ...
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ARTIST ROOMS blog: Confessional Art/Art Confessions
University of Edinburgh student Sara Carter tells us how an exhibition inspired by ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois came about in ...
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ARTIST ROOMS blog: Bourgeois, Costumes & Dance
Edinburgh College dance graduate Eleanor Robertson describes her experience working on the Episodes project with Edinburgh College of Art performance ...
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