Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings

Melbeto said I recommend to all those who have loved LB and continue. Louise Bourgeois was one of my first creative loves. Her psychological take, her visceral story telling, made me think of the feminine and entrapment without transcendence or clarity; it clears your head but she was holding on to the dear end to her sorrows. Even so, her work made me feel understood, almost oceanic. I had no idea she was in therapy; . "Great Gift of a Book!" according to phil gray. What an amazing artist and thinker. Her gift of her own personal psychoanalytic journals and the accompanying reprints of some of her most interesting work should be coveted by those who want to better understand the process of artistic creation.. "Very compelling text, amazing art. Box-set!" according to Sarah. Amazing! This is much more than your average art book. It's a comprehensive account of Bourgeois's life and career, in a box-set of two books. The main focus of the pair is The Return of the Repressed. The first half is mostly text, but each section is introduced with full-page reproductions of some of her greatest pieces. This book's rich psychologi

Discovered in boxes in 2004 and 2010 by her assistant Jerry Gorovoy during the renovation of her Manhattan brownstone, these writings were intended as tools for her "interminable analysis," as Mignon Nixon terms it here. Volume two, illustrated with photographs of Bourgeois (from toddler to nonagenarian), presents a selection of the artist's hitherto unpublished notes and dream logs written on loose sheets of paper. Reproduced in part and translated for the first time in a sleek volume edited by Philip Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois’s literary archivist, these writings reveal Bourgeois as an artist whose profound engagement with psychoanalysis was anchored in

The second volume in this gorgeous slipcased set is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist’s death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise the most complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.. Famed for some of the twentieth century’s most enduring works, such as “The Destruction of the Father” (1974), “Arch of Hysteria” (1993) and “Maman” (1999), Bourgeois also disseminated her influence through her writings, collected in the 1998 volume Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings 1927–1997--originally published by Robert Violette, also the publisher of this new deluxe writings-cum-monograph two-volume set. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) invented a new kind of language for sculpture--a language that was essentially psychoanalytic, uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle, ominous forces of repression, sexual symbolism and material uncanniness. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artist’s life and work. Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois’ literary arc