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Hatje Cantz

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Clth, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 92 pgs / 69 color.

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HATJE CANTZ

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries

Text by Louise Bourgeois.

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries

Metaphors of repair and echoes of family labor in the magnificent tapestries of Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois' tapestry and needlepoint work deals with reparation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. In many of the works, fragmented tapestries are pieced together and repaired to create new sculptural forms. The recurring practices of weaving, stitching and mending express Bourgeois' identification with her childhood and the family business of tapestry restoration. Coupled with the medium of tapestry, Bourgeois' recurring motif of the spider symbolizes her mother, a weaver, and fully explores the complex relationship between mother and child. This publication includes archival photographs and facsimile documents from the Bourgeois family archive, as well as excerpts from the artist's psychoanalytical writings.


"Untitled" (2002) is reproduced from 'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries.'

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/5/2020

Back in Stock! 'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries' is a staff pick for Women's History Month

Back in Stock! 'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries' is a staff pick for Women's History Month

"Spider" (2003) is reproduced from Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries, back in stock from Hatje Cantz. Featuring textile and needlepoint works alongside archival materials and the artist's writings, it's a staff pick for Women's History Month, 2020. "The unraveling of a torment: you have to begin somewhere: the color blue, the damage is repairable," Bourgeois writes. "I cannot throw it away because I do not want to put it on the back burner. It is worth saving. I have gone through this one hundred times + any piece of tapestry is worth (not saving, cherishing) result: mountains of unusable clothes, buried under torn clothes. I can’t renounce the past. I cannot, do not want to forget. imitation + homage to the mother." continue to blog


LOUISE BOURGEOIS MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Louise Bourgeois: Casted Memory

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: CASTED MEMORY

Marsilio Arte

ISBN: 9791254632178
USD $39.95
| CAD $56.95 UK £ 34.99

Pub Date: 3/25/2025
Forthcoming


Louise Bourgeois: Persistent Antagonism

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: PERSISTENT ANTAGONISM

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753305202
USD $45.00
| CAD $56.95

Pub Date: 6/18/2024
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Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE WOVEN CHILD

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775751490
USD $55.00
| CAD $75

Pub Date: 4/12/2022
Active | In stock


Louise Bourgeois: Spiral

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: SPIRAL

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862086448
USD $50.00
| CAD $69.95

Pub Date: 2/19/2019
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Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: TO UNRAVEL A TORMENT

Glenstone Museum

ISBN: 9780999802915
USD $50.00
| CAD $67.5 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 10/23/2018
Active | In stock


Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AN UNFOLDING PORTRAIT

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633450417
USD $55.00
| CAD $72.5

Pub Date: 9/29/2017
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Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PRINTS

Hayward Gallery Publishing

ISBN: 9781853323430
USD $18.00
| CAD $25.5

Pub Date: 5/24/2016
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER AND THE TAPESTRIES

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775739979
USD $40.00
| CAD $54

Pub Date: 7/10/2015
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Louise Bourgeois & Gary Indiana: To Whom It May Concern

LOUISE BOURGEOIS & GARY INDIANA: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Violette Editions

ISBN: 9781900828369
USD $75.00
| CAD $99

Pub Date: 10/31/2011
Active | In stock


Louise Bourgeois: Art to Read Series

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: ART TO READ SERIES

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775732277
USD $25.00
| CAD $34.5

Pub Date: 3/31/2012
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Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED

Violette Editions

ISBN: 9781900828376
USD $45.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 5/31/2012
Active | In stock


Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE FABRIC WORKS

Skira

ISBN: 9788857206547
USD $90.00
| CAD $115

Pub Date: 4/26/2011
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