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- catalog abstract ""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." "Bal argues that art must be understood in relation to the present time of viewing as opposed to the less-immediate contexts of what has preceded the viewing, such as the historical past of influences and art movements, biography, and interpretation. In ten short chapters, or "takes," Bal demonstrates that the closer the engagement with the work of art, the more adequate the result of the analysis. She also confronts issues of biography and autobiography - key themes in Bourgeois' work - and evaluates the consequences of "ahistorical" experiences for art criticism, drawing on diverse sources such as Bernini, Benjamin, and Eisenstein." "This book offers both a theoretical model for analyzing art "out of context" and a meditation on a key work by one of the most engaging artists of our era."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Spider".
- catalog contributor b12228499.
- catalog contributor b12228500.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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." "Bal argues that art must be understood in relation to the present time of viewing as opposed to the less-immediate contexts of what has preceded the viewing, such as the historical past of influences and art movements, biography, and interpretation. In ten short chapters, or "takes," Bal demonstrates that the closer the engagement with the work of art, the more adequate the result of the analysis. She also confronts issues of biography and autobiography - key themes in Bourgeois' work - and evaluates the consequences of "ahistorical" experiences for art criticism, drawing on diverse sources such as Bernini, Benjamin, and Eisenstein." "This book offers both a theoretical model for analyzing art "out of context" and a meditation on a key work by one of the most engaging artists of our era."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-134).".
- catalog extent "xiv, 134 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226035751 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "709/.2 21".
- catalog subject "Bourgeois, Louise, 1911- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Bourgeois, Louise, 1911- Spider.".
- catalog subject "Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010. Spider.".
- catalog subject "N6537.B645 A77 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Louise Bourgeois' Spider : the architecture of art-writing / Mieke Bal.".
- catalog title "Spider".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".