Day and night love and hate calm and chaos conscious and unconscious. Explore Louise
Bourgeois's world of tensions and extremes in this striking new book dedicated to one of the
most influential artists of the past century. Bourgeois (France USA 1911-2010) is renowned
for her fearless exploration of human relationships across a relentlessly inventive
seven-decade career. Featuring more than 200 images of Bourgeois's work a selection of her
writings and dream recordings and new perspectives on her work by filmmaker Jane Campion and
writer Chris Kraus this book reveals the extraordinary reach and intensity of her art. From
her haunting Personage sculptures of the 1940s to her iconic spiders and tough yet tender
textile works of the 1990s and 2000s Louise Bourgeois: Has the day invaded the night or has
the night invaded the day? is an essential guide to this singular artist and an exploration of
the polarities at the heart of her art. This publication accompanies a major exhibition of
Bourgeois's art presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney Australia and
documents its dramatic presentation in the renowned post-industrial gallery called the Tank. It
features further texts by exhibition curator Justin Paton Bourgeois expert Philip Larratt
Smith and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and a richly illustrated chronology of the artist's
life.
