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Louise Bourgeois' Spider : the architecture of art-writing / Mieke Bal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University Of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: xiv, 134 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0226035751
Other title:
  • Spider
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
1. Entrance -- 2. Description Shipwrecked -- 3. Narrative and Its Discontents -- 4. Refocusing Attention -- 5. Cement of Cellular Stories -- 6. Tales of Mother Spider -- 7. Fragmented Bodies -- 8. Beckoning Bernini -- 9. Passages through Modern Sculpture -- 10. Hyperbole as Wink.
Review: "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 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."
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Open Collection Open Collection FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Open Collection FCUC Library 709.2 BAL 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00015188
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Includes bibliographical references.

1. Entrance -- 2. Description Shipwrecked -- 3. Narrative and Its Discontents -- 4. Refocusing Attention -- 5. Cement of Cellular Stories -- 6. Tales of Mother Spider -- 7. Fragmented Bodies -- 8. Beckoning Bernini -- 9. Passages through Modern Sculpture -- 10. Hyperbole as Wink.

"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 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."

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