Cloth lullaby : the woven life of Louise Bourgeois / words by Amy Novesky ; pictures by Isabelle Arsenault.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781419718816
- 1419718819
- Woven life of Louise Bourgeois
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Biography | Bourgeoi L. N942 | Available | 33111008442523 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high.
Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise's own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois's childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all.
Includes bibliographical references.
A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her mother and her past are stitched into all of Louise's works.