- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- page (each): 59 1/8 × 19 13/16" (150.1 × 50.4 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" left lower sheet verso of cover, stitched in black thread.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Edition:
- Unique
- Background:
- Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The pagination of this illustrated book was determined by the Louise Bourgeois Studio and the publisher.
The paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. - Description:
- Pencil
- Inscription:
- "a / Book / by / Louise / Bourgeois!!" center page, pencil, artist's hand.
- Pagination:
- Pages 24 and 25 of 26.
2007
Differentiate , colophon
2007
2007
<i>Differentiate</i>, colophon
2007
Illustrated Book
2007
Differentiate
2007
<i>Differentiate</i>
2007
Louise Bourgeois,
Differentiate,
New York, Osiris, 2007Bourgeois's entire text for this volume appears on the pages cited below.
Page 3:
Differentiate
Pages 6-7:
Differentiate the advantage of attacking or withdrawing
Differentiate the forbidden and the hidden
Page 10:
The Tightening Agony withstanding anything today to insure the future hanging in there
Pages 12-13:
Murder or suicide
Sadist or masochist
Pages 16-17:
The ransom of a secret
The talker who is secretive
Page 19:
Le droit or le devoir
Page 20:
I want to be loved for myself. Incognito
Page 23:
I am defined by what is not. I am not white I am not black neither red nor blue nor green nor yellow neither grape nor pear I am a mirror I am there I am there I am not there You want to know I am only your image
Page 25:
a book by Louise Bourgeois!!