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Louise Bourgeois' Spider - The Architecture of Art-Writing (Hardcover, New)
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Louise Bourgeois' Spider - The Architecture of Art-Writing (Hardcover, New)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental
abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the
installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at
once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits both
no genre and all of them--architecture, sculpture, installation.
Its contents and associations evoke social issues without being
reducible to any one of them. Here, literary critic and theorist
Mieke Bal presents the work as a theoretical object, one that can
teach us how to think, speak, and write about art.
Known for her commentary on the issue of temporality in art, Bal
argues that art must be understood in relationship to the present
time of viewing as opposed to the less-immediate contexts of what
has preceded the viewing, such as the historical past of influences
and art movements, biography and interpretation. In ten short
chapters, or "takes," Bal demonstrates that the closer the
engagement with the work of art, the more adequate the result of
the analysis. She also confronts issues of biography and
autobiography--key themes in Bourgeois's work--and evaluates the
consequences of "ahistorical" experiences for art criticism,
drawing on diverse sources such as Bernini and Benjamin, Homer and
Eisenstein.
This short, beautiful book offers both a theoretical model for
analyzing art "out of context" and a meditation on a key work by
one of the most engaging artists of our era.
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