Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child

Hatje Cantz

Powered by Frooition.com\n\nAll Items\n\nSee our eBay store for more great items >>\n\nShop Categories\n\n{Title}, {ItemCondition}\n\n--\n\n--\n\nThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. \u201CI\u2019ve always had a fascination with the needle,\u201D she said, \u201Cthe magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It\u2019s a claim to forgiveness.\u201D This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bedlinen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological states. The catalog \u2013 which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London and the Gropius Bau, Berlin \u2013 featur.