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Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois

In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art launched an extraordinarily productive late career, making her a much-honored and vivid presence on the international art scene until her death in 2010 at the age of 98.   Trained as a painter and printmaker, Bourgeois embraced sculpture as her primary medium and experimented with a range of materials over the years, including marble, plaster, bronze, wood, and latex. Bourgeois contributed significantly to Surrealism, Postminimalist, and installation art, but her work always remained fiercely independent of style or movement.   With more than 1000 illustrations, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois comprehensively surveys her immense oeuvre in unmatched depth. Writing from a uniquely intimate perspective, as a close personal friend of Bourgeois, and drawing on decades of research, Robert Storr critically evaluates her achievements and reveals the complexity and passion of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

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Congrats @heni !! Robert Storr's new 'Writings on Art 2006–2021' is an @artnet Staff Pick for the New Year!⁠ ⁠ Kate Brown writes, "This new compilation of writing, published last month, pulls together 51 of Storr’s most captivating articles, essays and other texts from the past 15 years. The esteemed critic writes passionately and intelligently about 45 international artists, including El Anatsui, Francesco Clemente, and David Hammons—sometimes in texts published in English for the first time. The book is the follow-up to Storr’s essential volume one, titled 'Writings on Art 1980-2005,' which was also edited by Francesca Pietropaolo."⁠ ⁠ Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings #artwriting @kate__brown⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ — https://www.instagram.com/artbook/p/CYT8wrZrIwv/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Let's just say this book is a must-have for anyone interested in contemporary art or artists. Collecting Robert Storr's 'Writings on Art 2006–2021,' this is the second volume in the acclaimed series from @heni⁠ ⁠ It's a recent critic's pick @theartnewspaper.official and @brooklynrail where @william_corwin writes, "Storr’s essays gently nudge us to be our better selves. As editor Francesca Pietropaolo points out in her introduction, Storr is 'complicit' with the reader and doesn’t alienate with any authoritative hierarchy, either with jargon or dismissive tone, except maybe with Damien Hirst, but there’s an exception to every rule. Even further to that point, the author admits a certain vulnerability which makes the 51 essays even more readable: 'Most of these essays address art with which I have had problems, the sorting out of which is the true subject of my writing' he confides to us in his introduction. This is the second volume, the first having covered Storr’s essays 1980–2005. The language is beautiful: Rosalind Krauss inhabits a 'citadel' of art history, and a lively description of Kim Jones’s Mudman is deftly aligned with Hobbes’s philosophy—this isn’t writing trying to be smart, but it will make you smarter.…" ⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Please order the book from your favorite independent bookstore!⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CXopgK3pOc8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Guess what? 'Writings on Art 2006–2021,' the much-anticipated second volume of Robert Storr’s lucid, insightful chronicles of modern and contemporary art, has released this week!⁠ ⁠ Featuring the best of Robert Storr’s criticism—reviews, essays and articles, many of which are previously unpublished—from 2006 to the present day, this 716-page volume includes his texts on artists such as Gego, Carrie Mae Weems, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, El Anatsui and Francesco Clemente. Written with his signature intellect and wit, his writings range from essays on performances of femininity in Cindy Sherman’s photographic oeuvre to dialectics of race in the work of Kara Walker.⁠ ⁠ Expertly curated from his prolific output, and illustrated with 175 images to accompany 51 texts, 'Writings on Art' is the definitive collection of Storr’s multifaceted writing with his finger on the pulse of contemporary art—a must-read for curators and students, artists, exhibition-goers and all those interested in the art and culture of today.⁠ ⁠ Published by @heni Edited by Francesca Pietropaolo.⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCT5eepb4n/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Robert Storr's gorgeous 672-page 'Writings on Art 1980–2005' is a NEW RELEASE this week from @heni⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Believe it or not, this monumental trove is only the first of a two-volume set, launching virtually tonight, TUES, 11/17 at 6PM ET, with a conversation between Storr and the book's editor, Francesca Pietropaolo, via @paulacoopergallery & @192books in New York. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "Writing to someone, without knowing who that someone might be, is at the heart of Storr’s critical output," Pietropaolo writes. "There is a longed-for interlocutor, unnamed and yet ever present. The invitation to the reader to engage with a text, in dialog with the writer and with themselves, is palpable even in, or perhaps because of, its elusiveness. A self-declared 'insatiable scopophiliac bedeviled by the written word,' Storr proves to be one of the most influential and riveting art writers of our time. Infused with a remarkable agility of intelligence and an uncompromising belief in the importance of art, the writings collected in this book show just that and make sparks fly."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more about the event via linkinbio⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from @192books ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #robertstorr #robertstorrwritings https://www.instagram.com/p/CHs1kJipkpy/?igshid=1c4lpohd1orul

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[...] I think painting, per se, is an ideal way to criticize the work you already admire because that way you can take the best things in it and try to make your work to be the next consequential step. I mean, to me, that’s a given tradition in creative thought: to build on what you’re seeing that you love and try to bring it to new and unknown terrain.[...] Ron Gorchov in conversation with Robert Stort and Phong Bui for the Brooklyn Rail in 2006. . . #rongorchov #robertstorr #phongbui #brooklynrail #shapedcanvas #stackpainting #newyork #minimalism _______ In the picture: Ron Gorchov, “Eurygius”, 2017.

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EVENT TONIGHT! Robert Storr in conversation w/ Francesca Pietropaolo at 192 Books! Thursday, March 8th at 7PM, @192books presents painter, critic, curator and exhibition-maker #RobertStorr in conversation with art historian, curator and critic #FrancescaPietropaolo, in celebration of Storr's new 900-page interview collection, “Interviews on Art,” edited by Pietropaolo and published by @henipublishing #interviewsonart #artbook #artbookevent #artbookdap

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ARTBOOK | D.A.P. / artbook.com ‘Gladys Nilsson’ published by @garthgreenangallery #gladysnilsson #hairywho #chicagoimagist @dan_nadel #robertstorr