Louise Bourgeois

The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings

Philip Larratt-Smith, Philip Larratt-Smith, Elisabeth Bronfen

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Thames & Hudson
01 July 2012

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

Approximately 80 previously unpublished writings by Louise Bourgeois appear here in print for the first time, which, combined with eight extensive scholarly essays turns our critical understanding of Bourgeois' work on its head, offering a new and unprecedented insight into the work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. Famed for such works as The Destruction of the Father (1974), Arch of Hysteria (1993) and her huge and emblematic piece Maman (1999) - an enormous spider as an icon of maternal protection and withdrawal - Bourgeois investigated the realm of psychoanalytical territory through her sculptures, paintings and writings. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed shows the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in her life and work. Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith, her literary archivist, these texts provide a comprehensive overview and re-reading covering 60 years of artistic production. The second volume in this gorgeous set also serves as an impressive and up-to-date monograph, detailing works up until the artist's death in 2010.

By: Philip Larratt-Smith, Elisabeth Bronfen
Edited by: Philip Larratt-Smith
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 188mm, Spine: 50mm
Weight: 1.950kg
ISBN: 9781900828376
ISBN 10: 1900828375
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings

Bourgeois was an intensely autobiographical artist who poured her demons into her work. Her art was, she believed in a very literal way, her salvation.In the new book, ominously but accurately entitled The Return of the Repressed, curator and writer, Philip Larratt-Smith makes much of Bourgeois' fear of abandonment and her complex love-hate relationship with her father.--Sean O'Hagan Another Magazine