Art; Memories That Melt Stone; Louise Bourgeois Casts Her Anger Into Sculpture

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 24, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

The mysterious sculpture of Louise Bourgeois, the French-born New York artist who represented the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale, leaves viewers somewhere between bafflement and wonder. After decades of relative obscurity, Bourgeois, now 82, has been thrust into the international limelight, as fashion and feminists have caught up with her.

Today the Corcoran Gallery opens "Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993," an expanded version of the Biennale show. Included are 23 highly varied sculptures and 31 works on paper, all made in the decade since Bourgeois' first ...

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