{"product_id":"mumbling-beauty-louise-bourgeois-9780500093917","title":"Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois\u003c\/strong\u003e by Van Gelder, Alex. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780500093917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intimate, powerful portrait of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world―her studio and home―and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested, waited―mischievous, or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end. She fills the camera with her presence. It is a profound portrait of an artist of the utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age.\n\nLouise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era, and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras, including minimalism, installation art, and body art. However, she did not achieve fame until after her seventieth year, discovered and heralded by a new generation. Once discovered, her reputation grew in the 1980s, ’90s, and 2000s with an array of major international exhibitions and a burst of creativity. Throughout, her art is confessional, psychological, and fraught with fear, anger, and sexuality.\n\nVan Gelder’s collaborative portrait is in many ways a message from Bourgeois to the world, her chosen epitaph, scrawled in her own way by gesture, expression, and posture. Despite the frailty and decrepitude of her near one hundred years, she defies her vulnerability. 81 color photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956345040949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500093911","price":48.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500093917_374d748e-a597-4b85-8a45-49e8721fb7ec.jpg?v=1778881103","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mumbling-beauty-louise-bourgeois-9780500093917","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}