LOUISE BOURGEOIS - The Insomnia Drawings. Vol. I - II

LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings, on the other hand, is a superior book on this major American artist. Despite the cost, it is well worth obtaining; it contains 220 of the finest facsimile illustrations, a pair of lucid and well-written essays, and the best chronology on the artist to date. The “Insomnia Drawings” themselves are riveting and illuminate the artist’s world of poetic thought. They record seven months of her night-drawing period, from November 1994 through June 1995. A variety of subjects including people, architecture, and flowers intertwine in a seemingly endless flow. Bourgeois captures humor, seriousness, and infinity in simple line drawings that suggest schematic diagrams.

In 1994-95, Bourgeois, who was plagued by insomnia, created a series of 220 works on paper during sleepness nights. She kept them together as a group, calling them, "The Insomnia Drawings." The dealer and publisher Peter Blum mounted the first exhibition of this series during the Basel Art Fair in June 1995. Later, the Daros Collection of Zurich, Switzerland, purchased the series and decided to reproduce them in a two-volume book called, "Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings," which was published in 2000. The first volume contains facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the 220 drawings. The second volume is comprised of a foreward by Stephan Schmidheiny, texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen, a chronology, and a checklist, transcriptions, and notes.This two-volume work was published by Daros, Zurich, in collaboration with Peter Blum Edition, New York, and Scalo, Zurich, Berlin, New York.
For a special limited edition of this two-volume work, a drypoint entitled "Insomnia" was selected to serve as a bound-in frontispiece in the first volume. Since the selected drypoint was too large for this purpose, it was reworked in a second version, at a reduced size.

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Emne	Tegninger
Kunstner	LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Forfatter	Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen
Sprog	Engelsk
Illustrationer	448 pages with facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the 220 Drawings.
Format / Sideantal	26 x 33 cm. / Bd. I 448 sider. Bd. II 132 sider
Udgivelsesår	2000
Indbinding	Indbundet i 2 bind + kassette (D-3)
Forlag	Scalo
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS - The Insomnia Drawings. Vol. I - II