BOOKS ON THE ARTIST LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Wye, Deborah. LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 124 pp. catalogue with 184 b&w and 4 color illustrations. 4to, wraps. New York, M.O.M.A., 1982.
Item nr. 13856
$ 35.00
Paris. Galerie Maeght Lelong. LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Retrospective 1947 - 1984. 40 pp. with approx. 50 illustrations, 7 in color. Folio, wraps. 1985.
With 2 lithographs loosely inserted, as issued.
Item nr. 24428
$ 250.00
Kotik, Charlotta et al. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982 - 1993. 144 pp. with 86 illustrations, 29 in full color. Folio, cloth. New York, Abrams, 1994.
A catalogue of the first major exhibition of Bourgeois' sculpture and drawings in nearly fifteen years. Enlarging upon the artist's presentation at the 1993 Venice Biennale, this show brings together the full range of mediums, techniques, and themes of the past decade. Traveling exhibition opens at The Brooklyn Museum in spring 1994.
Item nr. 38079
$ 85.00
Wye, Deborah and C. Smith. The Prints of LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 256 pp. with 405 illustrations, 76 in color. Oblong 4to, cloth. New York, Abrams for The Museum of Modern Art, 1994.
The printed work of this innovative artist, highly regarded for her sculpture and installations, has remained largely unknown until in 1990, when she donated her entire printed oeuvre to the New York Museum of Modern Art. This catalogue, comprising approximately 600 compositions, reveals on an intimate scale her personal and artistic concerns, and includes commentary by the artist.
Item nr. 41181
$ 275.00
Paris. Musee d'Art Moderne. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Sculptures, Environments, Dessins, 1938 - 1995. 239 pp. include numerous illustrations in b&w. 4to, wraps. 1995.
Item nr. 44257
$ 150.00
Bernadac, Marie-Laure & Hans-Ulrich Obrist (editors). LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Destruction of the Father - Reconstruction of the Father -Writings and Interviews 1923-1997. 384 pp., illustrated throughout in b&w. 8vo, wraps. Cambridge, MIT Press in association with London, Violette Editions, 1998.
This collection is drawn from diaries, formal texts and essays, as well as interviews.
Item nr. 51952
$ 35.00
Gorovoy, Jerry and P.T. Asbaghi. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Blue Days and Pink Days. With a critical text by Paulo Herkenhoff; 306 pp., with approximately 200 duotone photographs. Large 4to, wraps. Madrid, Fondazione Prada, 1997.
A good general overview of one of the most innovative post-war sculptors and perhaps the most important contemporary figure working from a feminist perspective.
Item nr. 51973
$ 50.00
Crone, Rainer and Petrus Graf Schaesberg. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Secret of the Cells. 167 pp., with 77 color and 176 b&w illustrations. Large 4to, cloth. Munich, Prestel, 1998.
Though it covers work from all periods of her career, this volume concentrates on Bourgeois' installation pieces, or cells, as she calls them. Biographical information is complemented by photographs from the artist's own archive, many heretofore unpublished.
Item nr. 52153
$ 225.00
Bordeaux. CAPC. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Oeuvres Recentes/Recent Works. Text by Marie Laure Bernadac et al.; 131 pp., with 33 color and 20 b&w illustrations.(Includes a separate brochure for the Serpentine Gallery exhibition by Marie Darrieussecq, 32 pp. with 3 b&w illustrations, wraps). 4to, wraps. 1998.
An exhibition catalogue for a travelling show, primarily featuring steel sculptures called "Poles", works created with the artist's own clothes called "Cells", and stuffed fabric figures. Text in French and English.
Item nr. 52884
$ 150.00
Haenlein, Karl et al.. LOUISE BOURGEOIS. Skulpturen und Installationen. 202 pp., text in German, 94 color plates, followed by 24 pp. English translation. 4to, cloth. Hannover. Kestner, Gesellschaft, 1994.
Item nr. 90814
$ 150.00
Bernadac, Marie-Laure and Elisabeth Bronfen. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Insomnia Drawings. Foreword by Stephan Schmidheiny; 2 volumes; volume I: unpaginated, colour facsimiles of both the recto and verso of 220 drawings; volume II: 130 pp., 5 colour figures. Folios, boards in slipcase. Zurich, DAROS in collaboration with New York, Peter Blum and Zurich/Berlin/New York, Scalo, 2001.
Over the course of several years in the mid 90's, Bourgeois recorded ideas and impulses during prolific bouts of insomnia with a series of drawings and writings. This extraordinarily personal batch of work has now been collected into a book. Text in English and French.
Item nr. 93833
$ 325.00
Unterdorfer, Michaela. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Works in Marble/Marmorarbeiten. 96 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. Munich/New York, Prestel, 2002.
This book of works in marble covers the years from the 1960s to the present, and examines the artist's thoughts on the medium and its importance to her oeuvre. Published to accompany an exhibition at Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich and Cheim & Read, New York. Text in English and German.
Item nr. 101415
$ 225.00
Storr, Robert, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Allan Schwartzman. LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 160 pp., roughly 200 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2003.
This book from Phaidon's series on contemporary artists is a complete overview of Bourgeois' career and includes excerpts from her writings and an interview.
Item nr. 105443
$ 49.95
New York. C&M Arts with Chiem & Read. LOUISE BOURGEOISE: The Personages. Essay by Robert Pincus-Witten. Unpaginated including 19 color plates plus additional b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. 2001.
Item nr. 106447
$ 40.00
Caux, Jacqueline. Tissée, tendue au fil des jours, la toile de LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 192 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w. With CD. 4to, boards. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2004.
Text in French.
Item nr. 112037
$ 85.00
Keller, Eva and Regula Malin (editors). LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Emotions Abstracted. Werke/Works 1941-2000. 144 pp., 52 color plates, 14 color and b&w figures. 4to, cloth. Zurich, Daros Exhibitions, 2004.
This monograph includes more than 50 works from 6 decades of artistic activity. Text in German and English.
Item nr. 113509
$ 35.00
Morris, Frances (editor) et al. LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 316 pp., 282 color and b&w figures. 4to, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 2008.
Exhibition in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Washington.
Item nr. 126326
$ 65.00
Bovier, Lionel (editorial coordination). LOUISE BOURGEOIS. Quotations from Bourgeois' Diaries selected by Hans Ulrich Obrist; 96 pp., roughly 40 color plates. 4to, boards. Zurich, JRP Ringier, 2006.
Limited to 1,000 copies. Text in English and German.
All works from the Ringier Collection.
Item nr. 127453
$ 79.00
Stern, H. Peter, David R. Collens, and Amei Wallach. LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 72 pp., 31 color and 11 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, 2007.
Accompanies an exhibition.
Item nr. 127909
$ 40.00
Xenakis, Makhi. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Blind Leading the Blind. 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, boards. Paris, Actes Sud/Galerie Lelong, 2008.
Item nr. 132453
$ 49.95
Bal, Mieke, Rocio de la Villa and Maria Fluxa (texts). La Sage Femme: LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 136 pages, illustrated in color. 8vo, wraps. Murcia, Espacio AV, 2008.
Text in English and Spanish.Exhibition at EspacioAV, Murcia.
Item nr. 133837
$ 29.95
Amsellem, Patrick et al. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Maman. Photographs by Anders Norrsell; 136 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. 8vo, boards. Stockholm, Atlantis, 2007.
Published in conjunction with a seminar at the Wanas, Foundation. Text in English.
Item nr. 136526
$ 46.00
Warsaw. Zacheta Gallery. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Geometria pozqdania - Geometry of Desire. 272 pages, fully illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. 2003.
Exhibition catalogue of the works of Louise Bourgeois held in 2003 in the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw. Contains many illustrations in colour and essays by Adam Budak, Mieke Bal, and Susan Rubin Suleiman. The catalogue also includes a bibliography, a chronology and list of her exhibitions. Text in Polish and English.
Item nr. 141415
$ 66.00
Kittelman, Udo and Kyllikki Zacharias (editors) et al. HANS BELLMER - LOUISE BOURGEOIS. 160 pages, illustrated throughout, mostly in color. 4to, cloth. Berlin, Distanz Verlag, 2010.
Exhibition in Berlin and The Hague. Text in German and English.
Item nr. 141492
$ 60.00
Larratt-Smith, Philip et al. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Return of the Repressed. Psycholanalytic Writings. 2 volumes: 500 pages, including 113 color plates. 4to, boards in slipcase. London, Violette Editions, 2012.
Not in stock. Publication announced for April 2012
Item nr. 145126
$ 75.00
Zurich. Hauser & Wirth. ALEX VAN GELDER - LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Armed Forces. Unpaginated, 18 color plates. 4to, cloth. Barcelona, Poligrafa, and Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, 2011.
Van Gelder's photographs of Bourgeois's hands. Exhibition in Zurich.
Item nr. 145465
$ 45.00
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