PAST EXHIBITION

A Life in Pictures: Louise Bourgeois

June 27, 2008—September 12, 2008

Bourgeois’s diaries, which she has kept assiduously since 1923, indicate the tensions between rage, fear of abandonment, and guilt that she has suffered since childhood. It is through her art, however, that she has been able to channel and release these tensions. A selection of images provides an overview of Bourgeois’s biography, illustrating the many intersecting and overlapping roles she has played, including venturesome student, dutiful daughter, loving wife and mother, and maverick artist whose work is ever contemporary and relevant to the times.

Website: www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/sackler_louise/index.html

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