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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) was active/lived in New York / France.  Louise Bourgeois is known for Grouped wood shape sculpture, installation.

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A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention.  In fact, she was one of the first installation artists.  She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist because of her early activity in New York City.

Recognition came somewhat late in her life because she spent many years committed to domestic life of raising children and maintaining a home for them and her husband.

She was born in France three years before the beginning of World War I, and her early childhood was unsettled because she and her mother traveled about to follow her father in the military.  After the war, her parents worked in a tapestry factory, and much of the family conversation concerned hard work and technique and style. She attended school at the Lycee Fenelon in Paris and majored in philosophy and then attended the Sorbonne.&nb   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7721 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Louise Bourgeois

   Publications  Book References:  91
Magazine References:  64

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64 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Louise Bourgeois
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Report from Monte Carlo: A Helluva Town November 2006 Tuchman, Phyllis Yes
Art & Auction Market File July 2006 O'Steen, Danielle Yes
ARTnews Show and Tell: Louise Bourgeois at Her Sunday Salon June 2006 Thomas, Kelly Devine Yes
ARTFORUM Preview January 2006 Editors Yes
Art & Auction Corporate Culture December 2004 Chen, Aric Yes
Art & Auction Gallery Calendar December 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
American Art Review Williams College Museum of Art June 2004 Stomberg, John R Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk May 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews Hidden Pleasures and Public Treasur May 2004 Spears, Dorothy Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk April 2004 Douglas, Sarah Yes
ARTnews The Most Erotic Artworks January 2004 Berwick, Carly Yes
ARTnews National News January 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Aspen: A Cutting-Edge Museum and January 2004 Stunda, Hilary Yes
ARTnews A Relentless Connoisseur December 2003 Falkenstein, Michelle Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts November 2003 Lyons, Susan Yes
Art & Auction Image Conscious September 2003 D'Amato, Jennie Yes
Art & Antiques The Bigger They Come... The Harder September 2003 LaTempa, Susan Yes
Art & Auction Principals of Design; Geoffrey Brad May 2003 Mason, Brook S Yes
ARTnews Dia on the Hudson May 2003 Pollack, Barbara Yes
ARTnews Who Are the Great Women Artists? March 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
Art & Auction Harley Baldwin's Aspen February 2003 Finkle, Jori Yes
Art & Auction On Books - The Winter Games January 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk December 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art-Talk Magic off the Mountain in Aspen December 2002 Sachson, Gail Yes
ARTnews Books-Speaking Volumes November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews How are Critics Spoke November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk November 2002 Editors, ARTtalk No
ARTnews The Turning Tides of Taste November 2002 Landi, Ann Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2002 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
Art in America Front Page July 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions March 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Art on TV February 2002 Heartney, Eleanor Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews July 2001 Editors, ART FORUM No
Art & Auction Market Place April 2001 Editors Yes
Art & Auction (bitter) Sweet Charity April 2001 Vincent, Steven Yes
Art & Antiques Top 100 Collectors in America March 2001 Scott, Sue Leeds, Valerie Yes
Art & Antiques Review: Tate Update December 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTFORUM Best of 200 December 2000 Editors, ARTFORUM Yes
Art in America Body Art: Brawn of a New Era September 2000 Valdez, Sarah Yes
The Magazine Antiques The Heritage Lottery Fund June 2000 Kramer, Milton Yes
Art & Antiques A & A Update May 2000 Editors Yes
Art in America Planning for Impermanence April 2000 Buskirk, Martha Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 2000 Editors Yes
Art in America Front Page March 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace January 2000 Editors Yes
ARTnews The 10 Best Living Artists December 1999 Editors Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk November 1999 Editors Yes
ARTnews International News August 1999 Editors, ARTNews Yes
ARTnews News Briefs June 1999 Editors Yes
ARTnews The Century's 25 Most Influential May 1999 Editors, ARTNews No
ARTnews Reviews March 1999 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Art Talk January 1999 Editors, ARTNews Yes
ARTnews Weighing in on Feminism May 1997 Lovelace, Carey Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries March 1997 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Art in America Report from Sao Paulo March 1997 Leffingwell, Edward Yes
ARTnews art news NATIONAL June 1995 Editors, ART news Yes
Art & Antiques Memory and Meaning February 1995 Diehl, Carol Yes
ARTnews BOOKS February 1995 Editors, ART NEWS Yes
ARTnews Art TALK February 1995 Newhall, Edith Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions January 1995 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art & Antiques Sketchbook October 1994 AQ editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 1994 AN editors Yes
ARTFORUM Louise Bourgeois September 1994 Rickels, Laurence No
91 Book References for Louise Bourgeois
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
360 Yes
2008 Morris, Frances and Marie Laure Bernadac Rizzoli (Editor) Louise Bourgeois 320 Yes
2008 Nixon, Mignon Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art 322 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2004 Keller, Eva (editor) Louise Bourgeois Emotions Abstracted 0 Yes
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2001 Mieke, Bal Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing 88 Yes
2000 Editor Museum Contemporary Art Picturing the Modern Amazon 176 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Seidner, David Artists at Work Inside the Studios of Today's Most Celebrated Artists 0 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Grande, John K. Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists 182 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann Icons of Art The 20th Century 216 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Craig-Martin, Michael Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1995 Weiermair, Peter Louise Bourgeois 195 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Geldzahler, Henry Making It New Essays, Interviews and Talks 369 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Hughes, Robert Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists 429 No
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)
196 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)
230 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Beckett, Wendy Contemporary Women Artists 128 Yes
1988 Bellemare et al Stations (Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal)
(Exhibition catalog)
207 Yes
1988 Kuspit, Donald The New Subjectivism Art in the 1980s 578 No
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Pincus-Witten, Robert Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986 429 No
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)
269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Marshall, Richard 50 New York Artists 118 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Fremon, Jean/ Robert Storr Louise Bourgeois Retrospektive 1947-1984
(Exhibition catalog)
35 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1982 Wye, Deborah Louise Bourgeois
(Exhibition catalog)
124 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)
164 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
Helfenstein, Josef Louise Bourgeois The Early Work 0 Yes
Kudriatseva & Sylvester (essay Louise Bourgeois at the Hermitage 104 No
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