Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois

by Robert Storr

A must-have for the core contemporary art Robert Storr's singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Louise Bourgeois's artistic achievement. In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art launched an extraordinarily productive late career, making her a much-honored and vivid presence on the international art scene until her death in 2010 at the age of 98. Trained as a painter and printmaker, Bourgeois embraced sculpture as her primary medium and experimented with a range of materials over the years, including marble, plaster, bronze, wood, and latex. Bourgeois contributed significantly to Surrealism, Postminimalist, and installation art, but her work always remained fiercely independent of style or movement. With more than 1000 illustrations, Intimate The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois comprehensively surveys her immense oeuvre in unmatched depth. Writing from a uniquely intimate perspective, as a close personal friend of Bourgeois, and drawing on decades of research, Robert Storr critically evaluates her achievements and reveals the complexity and passion of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Genres: Art, Art History, Nonfiction

828 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2014

About the author

Robert Storr is an American curator, critic, painter, and writer.

Reviews

[Isabel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only new Louise Bourgeois as the spider lady. This book was an incredible eye-opener. There is so much more to her artworks and they are plentiful, all building on imagery that hauntingly comes back. It is a mammoth book to read if you have little to no prior knowledge about the subject. But I was still totally enthralled.