Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art

by Mignon Nixon

Book Overview

A critical study of Louise Bourgeois's art from the 1940s to the 1980s: its departure from surrealism and its dialogue with psychoanalysis.

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis, argues Mignon Nixon in the first full-scale critical study of the artist's work. A pivotal figure in twentieth-century art, Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, France) emigrated to New York in 1938 and is still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262640708
• ISBN13: 9780262640701
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher