Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night Or the Night Invaded the Day?
Louise Bourgeois is one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she produced some of contemporary art’s most enduring images, making sculptures, installations, writings and drawings which, in mining her own psyche, have entered the collective unconscious.
We were delighted to publish this book on the occasion of our ‘Louise Bourgeois: I Give Everything Away’ exhibition that we showed of drawing and writing by Louise Bourgeois at Fruitmarket in 2013. The exhibition presented Louise Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings, a remarkable suite of 220 drawings and writings made between 1994 and June 1995, together with a selection of writings by Louise Bourgeois and two beautiful suites of large-scale mixed-media drawings, ‘When Did This Happen?’ from 2007, and ‘I Give Everything Away’, made right at the end of the artist’s life in 2010.
Tate Modern director, Frances Morris, curated this exhibition, and wrote the essay that forms the principal part of this book. She was characteristically generous with her extensive knowledge of and insight into the work of Louise Bourgeois. Philip Larratt-Smith also generously introduced his selection of additional writings by Bourgeois on insomnia.
This was a limited print run, with only a few books remaining.
Published in 2013
978-1-908612-25-0
220 x 210mm
144 pages