Louise Bourgeois - Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father - Ammann 2001

Writings and Interviews 1923-2000
"Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor." Beginning at the age of twelve, Louise Bourgeois both wrote and drew, first a diary precisely recounting the everyday events of her family life, then notes and reflections. Destruction of the Father (the title comes from the name of a sculpture she did following the death of her husband in 1973) contains both formal texts and what the artist calls "pen-thoughts": drawing-texts often connected to her drawings and sculptures, with stories or poems inscribed alongside the images. 
As a private woman "without secrets," she gave numerous interviews to journalists, artists, and writers, expressing her views on her oeuvre, revealing its hidden meanings, and relating the connection of certain works to the traumas of her childhood. This book collects both her writings and her spoken remarks on art, confirming the deep links between her work and her biography and offering new insights into her creative process.

Ammann Verlag & Co - 2001
440p - GER - 23.4x18cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - very good condition