LOUISE BOURGEOIS

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Louise Bourgeois is surely one of the great lone wolves of 20th-century sculpture. Her work, begun in the 1940s, has attracted increasing attention and respect since the mid-1970s. High regard for this artist, who lived and workedunnoticed by the mainstream art scene for many years, found its expression in the retrospective presented by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1982, for which a first publication issued. That first catalogue edited by Deborah Wye, is now followed by the present volumen, prepared as an accompaniment to the European exhibition tour. This catalogue is the most comprehensive documentation of the work of Louise Bourgeois published to date. That her work now occupies center stage in the discussion of art and that she has become a model-figure for a younger generation of artists surely have a great deal to do with the fact that her own personal expressive intention -and not a particular style- has been its dominant formative influence. Only a period that refused to subjugate itself to stylistic dictates and advocated instead an open, pluralistic approachto art was capable of fully appreciating her work. Among other contributions, the present volume contains essays by a number of American art historians who deal with the artist in a variety of ways. This in itself is evidence of the fact that it was in the U.S., the country in which she found the freedom of artistic expression she sought, that she has received the closest attention thus far.

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