- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- page (each): 59 1/4 × 19 1/2" (150.5 × 49.5 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" left lower sheet verso of cover, stitched in red 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.
The cover of this book was created after its contents, and the title on the cover differs from that on the title page. According to the Louise Bourgeois Studio, the title of this book is "Duration and Intensité," as written on the title page. - Description:
- Pencil
- Inscription:
- "duration / and / intensité" center page, pencil, artist's hand.
- Pagination:
- Pages 2 and 3 of 16.
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Publication Excerpts
Louise Bourgeois,
Duration and Intensité,
New York, Osiris, 2007Bourgeois's entire text for this volume appears on the pages cited below.
Page 5:
Recovery of a sense of safety of identité of power of integrité of possibility
Page 6:
finding a river of abundance of connection!!!
Page 8:
Verticality is the move from the passive (fear and violence) to the active
Page 10:
the solution of continuity
Page 12:
The beloved object is infinite