Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings
The Insomnia Drawings
$186.44
- Hardcover
580 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2026
Summary
Bourgeois’ thought-provoking collection of more than 200 works, produced during sleepless nights, provides inimitable insight into her psyche.
Insomnia was a lifelong companion of Louise Bourgeois’s nights. Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper the thoughts, memories, and images that surfaced during these sleepless hours. The resultant 220 drawings represent the quintessence of the impulses, sources, and motifs that inspired Bourgeois’s work. Ori…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783908247395 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 390824739X |
| Author: | Louise Bourgeois, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Elisabeth Bronfen |
| Publisher: | Scalo |
| Imprint: | Scalo |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 580 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 4.41kg |
| Dimensions: | 72mm x 262mm x 340mm |
Louise Bourgeois
Marie-Laure Bernadac has worked as a curator at the Musée Picasso (Paris), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the CAPC - Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Louvre from 2003 to 2013.
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich as well as Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.
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