Louise Bourgeois, detail of Untitled (Legs and Bones), 1993; courtesy Gallerie Karsten Greve, Cologne; photograph by Beth Phillips
Louise Bourgeois: 1911–2010
"We sit in Louise's web, a wonderfully tatty parlor, watching the paint peel, waiting nervously. There is a round coffee table with a dozen bottles of liquor on it. Esrafily pours and says: 'Louder! Like we're having a party. If she thinks she's missing a party, she'll come down.'' Cloud taunts us: ''Man, she's gonna lay waste. I call this place the smack-down shack, 'cause it ends in tears, man.'
"Then she appears, and it's hard to imagine this small, opalescent woman in a pink tunic, black slip over black leggings and tiny black Nikes smacking anybody down."
From "Always on Sunday," a profile of the artist and her circle that appeared in The New York Times in 2002
"My Life in Pictures": Bourgeois comments on photographs of herself from age 2 to 85, also in the Times.
And for Barbara Comyns admirers, we hear that her novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths will soon be republished in America (it's available in the UK from Virago). More details to come.
What great news about Our Spoons Came From Woolworths.... and I had no idea that that is a detail from a Louise Bourgeios - I am enjoying reading all about her.
Posted by: Hannah Stoneham | June 03, 2010 at 03:47 AM