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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ⓘ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) [1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art , Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker .
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Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [1]
[1] [3] Bourgeois died in 2010, and her contribution to the project, titled The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved, was her last major installation. [ 4 ] The Memorial comprises two separate buildings: a 410-foot (120 m) long wooden structure framing a fabric cocoon that contains Zumthor's installation; and a square smoked glass room, its ...
The last part of the song, beginning with the line So hold me Mom, is used in correspondence to Bourgeois' theme of depicting the mother figure with spider sculptures. During the credits, a remix of a song called Otte, written and sung by Louise Bourgeois herself, is heard. The film also shows her amused reaction to hearing herself singing this ...
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. [1] It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells [2] and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel. [3]
The most familiar work from this series was used for the cover of critic Lucy Lippard's influential 1976 collection of feminist essays on art, From The Center. [1]The image of the female nude with the head of a home is also present in the film The Skin I Live In by director Pedro Almodóvar, who develops a relationship between the main character, Vera, and the works of Louise Bourgeois.
Louise (Bourgeois) Boursier (1563–1636) was royal midwife at the court of King Henry IV of France and the first female author in that country to publish a medical text. [1] Largely self-taught, she delivered babies for and offered obstetrical and gynecological services to Parisian women of all social classes before coming to serve Queen Marie ...