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Louise Bourgeois' Spider

Hardcover • 2001 • English

Louise Bourgeois' Spider

By Mieke Bal

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About the book

One of Louise Bourgeois's most striking sculptures is the "Spider". It fits no genre and all of them - architecture, sculpture, installation, and its contents evoke social issues. In this book, 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. Bal argues that art must be ubderstood in relationship to the present time of viewing as opposed to veiwing in light of preceding events, such as the historical...Show more

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ISBN

9780226035758

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Louise Bourgeois' Spider

Format

Hardcover

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