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Louise Bourgeois is certainly the least-known artist ever to get a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, an honor usually reserved for the Picassos or at least the Frank Stellas of this world. She is almost 71, French, a resident of New York City since...
That quality remains; but in the meantime, two things changed its status in the art world. One was the collapse of the idea that art had 1 only one way, the abstract track, forward into history. This made Bourgeois's idiosyncratic kind of late surrealism well worth examining. The...
This kind of subject is a long way from the normal concerns of sculpture, which impose themselves in a "masculine" manner on culture. What Bourgeois sets up is a totemic, surrealistic imagery of weak threats, defenses, lairs, wombs, almost inchoate groupings of form. Her work is by turns aggressive and...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded...
'Bob embodies this order, and thus serves as the figurehead of the underworld community. His unmistakable style is as much a function of his well-groomed physical authority and grace, reflecting a rigid moral code. Bob serves as an example to all around him, including his protege Polo (Daniel Cauchy...