Double Negative.
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Title |
Double Negative. |
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Creator |
Bourgeois, Louise (French-American sculptor, born 1911) |
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Date |
1963 |
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Subject |
Abstract sculpture
Allusions
Body parts
Human body
Sex
Nature
Mushrooms
Fungi |
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Description |
"Whilst Bourgeois's sculptures frequently connote male and female body parts, this piece also has landscape associations. Mounds or mushrooms are evoked, as is a relationship between 'above' and 'below' ground." (Caption, p.151); "The troubled early history that informed Bourgeois's work involved the fact that her father had installed his mistress in the family home, systematically undermining the self-esteem of his wife and daughter. […] In smaller carved or modeled sculptures she developed a lexicon of mutating 'part objects' - split-off parts of the body, neither securely male nor female, active or passive, onto which feelings of seduction or repulsion, pain or pleasure, could be projected." (Excerpt, p.152) |
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Material |
Latex over plastic
Latex (organic material)
Plastic (organic material) |
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Measurements |
49.2 x 95.2 x 79.6 cm |
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Technique |
Sculpting |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Abstract sculpture
Abstract works |
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Repository |
Kröller-Müller Stichting [Foundation] (Otterlo, Netherlands) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.151, fig.76) |
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Rights |
Photo P. Bellamy. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Cheim & Reid, New York. © Louise Bourgeois/VAGA, New York/DACS, London, 2000. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-07.jpg |
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