Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? - Hardcover

by Justin Paton (Editor), Jamieson Webster (With), Jane Campion (With)

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most influential artists of the past century. Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? explores the powerful emotional and formal tensions that drove Bourgeois's extraordinary art: between night and day, rage and tenderness, need and resistance, geometry and gesture, anxiety and calm, fear and ferocity.

Spanning the seven decades of Bourgeois's career and featuring more than 120 works from intimate watercolors to large sculptures by the artist, Louise Bourgeois brings home the sense of perpetual and productive crisis--of the works as crises--that characterize Bourgeois's long life in art. Richly illustrated, the book features new writing by the curator and commissioned authors that offer critical insight into Bourgeois's practice as well as personal insights.

Author Biography

Justin Paton is head curator of international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His recent projects for the Art Gallery include Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter. Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst, assistant professor at The New School for Social Research, New York, and author of Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis. Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles-based writer who knew Bourgeois in New York in the 1980s. Her books include Summer of Hate and the highly acclaimed epistolary novel I Love Dick, and she is a co-editor of Semiotext(e). Jane Campion is an award-winning filmmaker and a great admirer of Bourgeois's work. Philip Larratt-Smith is editor of Bourgeois's The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings and curator of The Easton Foundation, which administers the estate of Louise Bourgeois.