| Description |
xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
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Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Americans lcdgt |
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Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt |
| Series |
October book
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| Note |
Originally published: 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-324) and index. |
| Contents |
Discipleship : deference and difference -- Femme maison (Woman house) : what's so funny about fetishism? -- He disappeared into complete silence : phantastic reality -- Personages : the work of mourning -- Double negative : the death drive turned against death -- Femme couteau (Knife woman) : art objects as part-objects -- Epilogue : Spider. |
| Summary |
"The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis, argues Mignon Nixon in the first full-scale critical study of the artist's work. A pivotal figure in twentieth-century art, Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, France) emigrated to New York in 1938 and is still actively working and exhibiting today. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the "father figures" of surrealism, including Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the "woman artist" and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis. "Fantastic reality" is what Bourgeois calls the condition of her art. Starting from Bourgeois's investigation, through a multiplicity of forms and materials, of the problem of subjectivity on the very threshold of emergence, this book argues for a new psychoanalytic story of modern art."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. (OCoLC)fst01752885
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Feminism and art.
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Psychoanalysis and art.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00816615
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Feminism and art. (OCoLC)fst00922727
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Psychoanalysis and art. (OCoLC)fst01081262
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| ISBN |
9780262640701 (pbk.) |
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0262640708 (pbk.) |
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