Knife-Woman The Life of Louise Borgeios

The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus. 

Bernadac elucidates Bourgeois’s friendships and rivalries with other major figures, including sculptor Louise Nevelson and Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr Jr. She also draws on Bourgeois’s well-known fascination with psychoanalysis to explore the deeply autobiographical nature of her artwork.

This erudite and keenly insightful biography pays tribute to the talent of the artist and the complexity of the person.

Hardback

472 pages, 36 color + 35 b-w illus.