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	Louise Bourgeois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louise Bourgeois (born 25 December 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by surrealism.
		Louise Bourgeois finds inspiration for her works from her childhood: her adulterous father, who had an affair with her English teacher, and her mother, who refused to acknowledge it.
		Louise Bourgeois is very effective in conveying feelings such as anger, betrayal and jealousy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louise_Bourgeois (440 words)

	Louise Bourgeois Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Not surprisingly, Bourgeois places little meaning in the materials and processes she uses to construct these sculptural realms: a belief in architecture parlante, that is, in architecture deployed as a symbolic language, underpins her approach to spatialized form.
		In the late 1950s, as Bourgeois turned from carving to modeling and from tectonic to biomorphic idioms, her vocabulary came to be dominated by womblike and cocoonlike sanctums that blend the organic and the anthropomorphic, part and whole, microscopic and monumental, in radically new conflations of sexuality and habitat.
		Bourgeois has supplied a vivid, pathological familial narrative involving dismemberment and cannibalism as the genesis of this eerily macabre installation, which is imbued with a Gothick violence unprecedented in her oeuvre.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/bourgeois/essay.html (1632 words)

	Louise Bourgeois Art Minimal & Conceptual Only
		Her father would draw Louise Bourgeois' outline on the skin of a tangerine and cut it in the shape of a naked girl.
		Louise Bourgeois was the middle child, between her sister and her brother.
		Louise Bourgeois developed a logic of instincts and it is important to link her art to the greater themes of knowledge or literature, rather than to the systems of art.
	members.aol.com /mindwebart2/page150.htm (1250 words)

	CIRCA Art Magazine - Online review - Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The juxtaposition of Bourgeois' contemporary work with her older pieces is striking - the sculptures and etchings are shrewdly chosen and complement each other, serving to highlight the underlying themes that have continuously pervaded her work, while also marking the vast artistic and creative development that Bourgeois has undergone in her sixty-year-long career.
		Bourgeois cannot be categorised into one particular style of twentieth-century art and, even though she analyses the experience of being a woman and uses sexuality as a theme, she does not fit the label of a 'feminist' artist and would never identify herself as such.
		Considering that Bourgeois is now 92 years old, the contemporaniety of the works on display is evidence that her creative powers remain as innovative and exciting as ever, and this exhibiton is testimony to the fact that Bourgeois is one of the most significant figures of twentieth-, and now twenty-first-century art.
	www.recirca.com /reviews/louisebourgeois/index.shtml (1844 words)

	Bienal - Special Guests - Louise Bourgeois
		Louise Bourgeois was the middle child, between her sister (honored in the sculpture Henriette, 1985) and her brother.
		Bourgeois crafted a parody of fashion shows in her work Fashion Show of Body Parts (1978), using transparent garments made of latex which stressed "how limited we are." Clothing needs limits.
		Bourgeois calls attention to the similarity between the design of the building where her studio is located in Brooklyn, and the rational work of architect Auguste Perret, who used the new technology of reinforced concrete at the beginning of the century.
	www1.uol.com.br /bienal/23bienal/especial/iebo.htm (4197 words)

	Artzar - Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At 92, Louise Bourgeois is still producing vibrant, large-scale work that continues themes explored throughout her career.
		Bourgeois translates memory and feeling into a universal visceral visual language by using materials in a way that heightens both their expressive value and that of the form they describe.
		New and old share Bourgeois' obsessive processing of the past and, as in all of her work, this exorcism functions as springboard to many other issues lodged in her consciousness: femininity, self-image, sexuality, mortality.
	artzar.com /content/bourgeois (1003 words)

	Louise Bourgeois
		Bourgeois received an honorary degree from Yale in 1977, and was awarded an Achievement Visual Arts Award by the Woman’s Caucus for the Arts in 1980.
		Though Bourgeois exhibited in major museums all over the world, she was recognized as primarily a "woman’s artist" until the Museum of Modern Art gave her a one-person show in 1982.
		In 1975 Lippard praised Bourgeois as an artist who “despite her apparent fragility survived almost 40 years of discrimination, struggle, intermittent success and neglect in New York’s gladiatorial art arenas.” Bourgeois proved that she was not only a survivor, but an artistically and intellectually competent personality to be reckoned with.
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Bourgeois.html (770 words)

	N.PARADOXA: ISSUE 2
		Reading various articles and essays about Louise Bourgeois, I have been struck by the continuing search for frameworks within which her work can be discussed and tested but also how writers come to terms with it.
		Bourgeois herself helps us focus on this through her own words, providing a moving, at times devastating, account of her autobiography: "My father betrayed me by not being what he was supposed to be...
		Bourgeois obsessively returns the critical audience of her work to its motivating source the murderous rage of a betrayed daughter.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /n.paradoxa/bourgeo1.htm (1975 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| Any answers?
		Louise Bourgeois, the grande dame of US art, is 92 and still working.
		Photo: AP Louise Bourgeois was born a world away, on Christmas Day in Paris, in 1911.
		The man turned to his partner and announced, so all could hear, "Louise Bourgeois never liked her father, overly." And, after a small silence, "Nor he her." According to Bourgeois herself, much of what has driven her art comes from the fact that, firstly, her birth on Christmas Day upset the family festivities.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1156207,00.html (1602 words)

	Louise Bourgeois: New Editions
		The livre d'artiste Metamorforsis was conceived by Louise Bourgeois in collaboration with Maria Fluxà, a writer and publisher from Mallorca, Spain.
		Using Louise Bourgeois’s obsessive sexual imagery and psychoanalytical innuendoes, Metamorfosis intertwines a suite of seven figurative etchings with archival photographs from both Louise Bourgeois and Maria Fluxà.
		Currently, Louise Bourgeois is included in the exhibition "The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
	www.artincontext.org /listings/pages/exhib/o/3x1aswbo/press.htm (331 words)

	Vitro Nasu » Louise Bourgeois
		Bourgeois uses events she saw as a young girl during and after WWI when large numbers of men returned from battle as amputees.
		Louise Boourgeois was born on Dec. 25, 1911 in Paris.
		Louise’ French Childhood was explored here with other creative geniuses.
	www.mutanteggplant.com /vitro-nasu/category/art/louise-bourgeois (795 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois 1039616594 1039647600 Aspen USA Roxanne Bank http://www.aspenartmuseum.org info@aspenartmuseum.org 1039616594.jpg 1042412399 o Aspen Art Museum Louise Bourgeois The Early Work Lower Gallery Louise Bourgeois is now recognized internationally as one of the most important twentieth-century American artists, yet she spent over half of her career in relative obscurity.
		While the work of Louise Bourgeois has been celebrated throughout the world in the last 20 years, this will be the most comprehensive museum exhibition on Bourgeois's early work organized in this country.
		While most of her contemporaries were drawn toward pure abstraction, the work of Louise Bourgeois is psychological and symbolic.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1039647600.1039616594.html (490 words)

	Tennis Palace Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911) is one of the world’s most prominent contemporary artists.
		Bourgeois made the Personnages in the late 1940s and early 1950s following her move from Paris to New York City.
		It’s an emotion you want to recreate, an emotion of wanting, of giving, and of destroying.” Bourgeois works with a wide variety of materials and techniques, but whether she uses wood, bronze, fabric, marble, steel or rubber, her pieces always give evocative form to emotions.
	www.taidemuseo.hel.fi /english/tennispalatsi/programme/bourgeois.html (520 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois is a celebrated American sculptor as well as a prolific printmaker, and is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential American Artists.
		Throughout her long career Bourgeois has produced intensely personal art, and her printed work explores on an intimate scale many of the same personal and artistic concerns as her sculpture.
		Today at the age of 92, Louise Bourgeois resides in New York City and continues to work in a variety of media, with which she makes powerful statements exploring recurring themes such as parental responsibility and the act of nurturing.
	www.marlboroughgallery.com /Grfx_Pages/Bourgeois.htm (162 words)

	Louise Bourgeois : Press Release : , Drawings by Louise Bourgeois at the Saint Louis Art Museum March 23rd through June ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bourgeois has described them as "ideas and little complaints." Made using pen, pencil, crayon, and gouache, the drawings range in style from colorful figures to muted abstractions.
		Even at their most inventive, Bourgeois' drawings are meant to represent the dramas of everyday living.
		Drawings by Louise Bourgeois was organized by Phillip Prodger, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, and is on view March 23 through June 20 in Gallery 321.
	www.procuniarworkshop.com /home/index/article/29.html (298 words)

	Frigatezine- Lives: A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois: "All the drawings on linen and the tinted--not painted — tinted self-portrait at that period [the group of "Femme-Maison" ca.
		In the early works of Louise Bourgeois there is a disconnection, a disparity between the "given" facades and the hidden aspects of the self that cannot find expression.
		Bourgeois: "In the 'Femme-Maison' the child was entrapped and at the end, forty years later — the 'Maisons Fragiles' — they are fragile but they are free-standing.
	www.frigatezine.com /essay/lives/eli02bou.html (1725 words)

	Louise Bourgeois Online
		Louise Bourgeois at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Louise Bourgeois at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
		All images and text on this Louise Bourgeois page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bourgeois_louise.html (382 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois's 'spider' is more than 20 feet high, is called 'Maman', and hovers protectively over what appear to be white eggs.
		Louise Bourgeois was born in France, but her career developed mostly in New York.
		The commission could be seen as a typical arrangement of curatorial diplomacy -American, yet European: but the installations by Bourgeois, whatever the reasons of choice, do seem to fulfil the promise of this enlightened decision.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /sculpture/bourgeois.htm (289 words)

	KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK - Louise Bourgeois - text
		Louise Bourgeois is surely one of the most important and outstanding artists at the close of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.
		It is precisely her work over the last 20 years that has given Louise Bourgeois a unique standing within the development of modern art and has also brought her career to an appropriate pinnacle.
		Louise Bourgeois studied art at a time when the female artist was the exception to the rule in a male-dominated world.
	www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at /en/etext09.htm (510 words)

	Louise Bourgeois Biography / Biography of Louise Bourgeois Main Biography
		Although the stylistic evolution of her work defies art historical categorization and her iconography is completely intimate and overtly sexual, Bourgeois' sculptures are exemplary of 20th-century artistic currents during the most controversial period of American art.
		Bourgeois' sculptures were on special exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Corcoran in Washington, D.C.; her prints were on exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and a selection of her drawings were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
		Bourgeois was born in Paris on December 25, 1911, and rem
	www.bookrags.com /biography-louise-bourgeois (251 words)

	Greg Kucera Gallery \| Seattle
		As a young adult Bourgeois assisted in her parents' tapestry workshop, where she was responsible in particular for making drawings of feet and other appendages that needed repair.
		In addition to sculpture, Bourgeois has also worked in the mediums of painting, drawing and printmaking over the course of her long and distinguished career.
		Bourgeois first experimented with printmaking in the 1940s, and has actively pursued the medium during the past two decades.
	www.gregkucera.com /bourgeois.htm (553 words)

	LOUISE BOURGEOIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois left France in the 1930s and moved to America, where she frequented the art crowd of 1940s New York.
		She once said, "I had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain.
		Bourgeois' version replaces the woman's head with a house, the symbol of Western domesticity.
	www.albany.edu /museum/wwwmuseum/crossing/artist3.htm (149 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the midst of a nationally publicized scandal regarding the Corcoran Gallery of Art's decision to cancel a Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective, ARTnews published an article entitled "What Is Pornography?" that featured reactions to the controversy from twenty-two prominent artists, museum directors, and politicians.
		Sculptor Louise Bourgeois, whose work frequently engages questions of sexuality, was among the respondents.
		Bourgeois's mischievous smile and the manner in which she carries the aggressively phallic Fillette—a French term that refers to a young and inexperienced girl—conveys the ironic sense of humor that is often at the heart of Bourgeois's work.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/artnews/bourg.htm (133 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father.
		She entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics in 1932 but turned to art the next year, enrolling at several art schools, including the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in addition to apprenticing in artists' studios in Montparnasse and Montmartre.
		Bourgeois represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1993.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/bourgeois (255 words)

	Kukje Gallery: Louise Bourgeois
		Born in Paris in 1911 and moved to the United States in 1938 upon her marriage, Louise Bourgeois was the first woman artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1982.
		Louise Bourgeois’ art always starts with her own life and experience.
		At 93, Louise Bourgeois is definitely one of the living legends in the art world who demonstrates an ongoing passion for new artistic forms of human experience.
	www.artnet.de /ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?G=7&cid=74348 (436 words)

	OFFOFFOFF art review LOUISE BOURGEOIS: ODE À L'OUBLI (Ode à L'Oubli) works by Louise Bourgeois
		Louise Bourgeois's thirty-six small but graphically jazzy framed works line the walls of Peter Blum Gallery in the exhibition "Ode à L'Oubli." Made of fabrics collaged onto linen, they're actually pages from a cloth book of the same name dated 2004.
		Bourgeois has devoted the latter part of her long career to the pursuit of the past — her own past.
		For Bourgeois grew up in the midst of her parents'industrious business in the acquisition and repair of them.
	www.offoffoff.com /art/2004/louisebourgeois.php (623 words)

	Louise Bourgeois
		Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 on Christmas day.
		Bourgeois studied math at the Sorbonne, then studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse.
		Bourgeois has worked in marble, wood, paint, bronze, plaster, and latex.
	www.oneroom.org /sculptors/bourgeois.html (245 words)

	Louise Bourgeois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louise Bourgeois created the inaugural work in The Unilever Series, which was in place when the gallery opened in May 2000.
		In each tower, Bourgeois placed a bell jar containing sculpted figures of a mother and child.
		Visitors could climb the staircases to the platforms, which Bourgeois envisaged as stages for intimate and revelatory encounters between strangers and friends alike.
	www.unilever.co.uk /ourvalues/environmentandsociety/community/arts/unileverseries/louisebourgeois.asp (242 words)

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