Bal, Mieke,  1946- <br/><br/>
Louise Bourgeois' Spider :  the architecture of art-writing / 
 Spider 
Mieke Bal. 
 - Chicago :  The University Of Chicago Press,  2001. 
 - xiv, 134 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226035751 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010.  Spider. <br/>Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 --Criticism and interpretation.