The Insomnia Drawings
Zurich: Daros, 2000. 1st Edition. 2 vols., large quarto, publisher's red and blue paper-covered boards, spines and upper boards stamped in blue and blush, photo-illustrated endpapers, original printed cardstock slipcase.
Two-volume monograph published in conjunction with an exhibition of French-American artist Louise Bourgeois’s drawing series at Tate Modern, London, in 2000. Done over the course of seven months from late 1994 to mid-1995, the drawings functioned for Bourgeois as a "rocking or stroking" to soothe herself to sleep during bouts of insomnia. Consisting of spirals and loops alongside poems, aphorisms, notes, and reflections primarily rendered in red pen and ink, the works parallel many of her monumental sculptures. The first volume comprises plates of all 220 drawings and sketches in color, while the second volume contains a foreword by Swiss collector and patron Stephan Schmidheiny, essays by French curator Marie-Laure Bernadac and German art critic Elisabeth Bronfen, alongside a chronology, exhibition checklist, transcriptions, and notes. Text in English and French. No dust jackets, as issued. Exhibition card for an unrelated 2006 show of Bourgeois's work laid in. Some sunning to spines; original cardstock slipcase with light rubbing and edgewear. Very good.
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