{"product_id":"louise-bourgeois-paintings-9781588397485","title":"Louise Bourgeois: Paintings","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois's early years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures. Less known--and the focus of this publication--is the body of paintings produced by the artist between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional media in 1949. Crucial to her artistic practice, these early works--rarely seen or exhibited--show Bourgeois's deeply personal artistic lexicon. Themes and motifs explored in her paintings coalesced into those that she would continue to mine during her decades-long career: the clock, the spiral, the \u003ci\u003eFemme Maison\u003c\/i\u003e (a woman's body with a house for a head), and the columnar figures that heralded her totemic \u003ci\u003ePersonage\u003c\/i\u003e sculptures. Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, the book's essays and illustrated chronology explore Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s--transformed by the arrival of European Surrealists and the emergence of the New York School--and her development of a pictorial language combining abstraction, figuration, and storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Museum of Art New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781588397485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Clare Davies, Briony Fer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839787704501,"sku":"9781588397485","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_57a6d9d5-7e9c-45ba-9d23-aec7ce158158.jpg?v=1646730824","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/louise-bourgeois-paintings-9781588397485","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}