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Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois
Alex Van Gelder
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Description for Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois
Hardcover. From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world - her studio and home- and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested and waited, mischievous or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end. She fills the camera with her presence. This book deals with her life and work. Num Pages: 112 pages, 81 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 316 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1150.
From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world - her studio and home- and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested and waited, mischievous or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end. She fills the camera with her presence. It is a profound portrait of an artist ofthe utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age. Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras, including ... Read more
From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world - her studio and home- and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested and waited, mischievous or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end. She fills the camera with her presence. It is a profound portrait of an artist ofthe utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age. Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras, including ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500093917
SKU
V9780500093917
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About Alex Van Gelder
Alex Van Gelder lives and works in Paris. He has published many books, including Life & Afterlife in Benin. He first met Louise Bourgeois as a teenager, and he exhibited a portfolio of photographs of Louise Bourgeois's hands in 2011. A catalogue entitled Alex Van Gelder - Louise Bourgeois ARMED FORCES accompanied the exhibition.
Reviews for Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois
'An intimate, uncompromising portrait' - artdaily.org