Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Arts & Activities | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Hausman, Jerome J. | Copyright information

[PRINT] RUNAWAY GIRL: The Artist Louise Bourgeois (2003, $19.95) by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011; www.abramsbooks.com.

I can recall seeing Louise Bourgeois at New York City gallery openings in the late 1940s. She was married to Robert Goldwater, the well-known art historian. As the years have passed, her stature as an artist has grown enormously. More recently, I participated in a ceremony in which she was o...

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