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

By:

Bal, Mieke, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : The University Of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: xiv, 134 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

0226035751

Other title:

Spider

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Contributor biographical information

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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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"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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