Included here are references for the study of prints and illustrated books by Louise Bourgeois. A range of general references is also cited to provide context. The primary volume on Bourgeois’s printed work through 1993 is Deborah Wye and Carol Smith’s The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).
This Bibliography will be further refined and updated as research progresses.
Bernadac, Marie-Laure. Louise Bourgeois. Paris and New York: Flammarion, 1996. (Revised and reprinted, 2006)
Bernadac, Marie-Laure and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Editors. Destruction of the Father /Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997. London: Violette, 1998
Celant, Germano. Louise Bourgeos: The Fabric Works. Venice: Fondazione Vedova and Skira, 2010
Crone, Rainer and Petrus Graf Schaesberg. Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells. Munich: Prestel, 1998. (Revised and reprinted, 2011)
Gorovoy, Jerry and Danielle Tilkin, et al. Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture. Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, 1999
Kellein, Thomas. Louise Bourgeois: La Famille. Bielefeld (Germany): Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2006
Kotik, Charlotta, et al. Louise Bourgesois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1994
Kuspit, Donald. Bourgeois. New York: Elizabeth Avedon/Vintage Contemporary Artists, 1988
Meyer-Thoss, Christiane. Louise Bourgeois: Designing For Free Fall. Zurich: Ammann, 1992
Morris, Frances, Editor. Louise Bourgeois. London: Tate, 2007
Storr, Robert, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman. Louise Bourgeois. London: Phaidon, 2003
Wye, Deborah. Louise Bourgeois. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Asbaghi, Pandora Tabatabai. Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture and Prints. Lugano-Castagnola (Switzerland): Christine Bader, 2006
Bernadac, Marie-Laure and Deborah Wye. Louise Bourgeois: Pensées-Plumes. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1995
Braekeleer, Catherine de. Louise Bourgeois: Estampes et livres illustrés. La Louvière: Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, 2004
Cole, Ian, Editor. The Museum of Modern Art Papers, Volume One: Louise Bourgeois. Oxford: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Cluitmans, Laurie and Arnisa Zeqo. He Disappeared Into Complete Silence: Rereading a Single Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. Haarlem (The Netherlands): De Hallen Haarlem, 2011
Cusk, Rachel. Louise Bourgeois: Suites on Fabric. London: Marlborough Graphics, 2011
Fluxá, Maria. Louise Bourgeois: Repairs in the Sky. Mallorca (Spain): Fundacio Joan Miro, 2005
Fremon, Jean. Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet. Paris: Gallimard and Maison de Balzac, 2010
Herkenhoff, Paulo. Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints 1989–2005. London: Marlborough Graphics, 2005
Herkenhoff, Paulo. XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra América. Curitiba, Brazil: Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curtiba,1995, pp. 48–49
Katz, Vincent. "Louise Bourgeois: An Interview," Print Collector’s Newsletter 25, no. 3 (July/August 1995): 86–90
Larratt-Smith, Philip. Louise Bourgeois: Les Fleurs. Seoul: Kukje Gallery, 2010
Larratt-Smith, Philip. Louise Bourgeois: Prints. Stockholm: Galleri Andersson Sandstrom, 2009
Lévy, Sophie. Louise Bourgeois: Livres Illustrés. Giverny: Musée d’Art Americain, 2001
Liebmann, Lisa. “Louise Bourgeois, at Last,” Print Collector’s Newsletter 24 (March/April): 7–8
Louise Bourgeois: L’ouevre gravée. Zurich: Galerie Lelong, 1991
Louise Bourgeois/Tracey Emin: Do Not Abandon Me. New York: Carolina Nitsch, 2010
Minder, Nicole and Cristina Mundici. Un duo en solo: Estampes 1942–1948 1974–2000, Carol Rama & Louise Bourgeois. Vevy (Switzerland): Cabinet cantonal des estampes, 2001
Pernoud, Emmanuel. Louise Bourgeois estampes. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1995
Prose, Francine. Louise Bourgeois: Recent Prints on Cloth and Paper. London: Marlborough, 2007
Somers, Lynn Marie. Ode à ma mère: Louise Bourgeois, intersubjectivity and embodied feminism. Ph.D Dissertation. Stony Brook (New York): State University of New York, 2001
Smith, Carol. Louise Bourgeois Prints: 1989–1998. Lynchburg: Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon College, 1999
Suzuki, Sarah J. S. Louise Bourgeois: Illustrated Books. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2001
Thompson, Cynthia. Louise Bourgeois, Topiary: The Art of Improving Nature. Memphis: Memphis College of Art, 2005
Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. The Prints of Louise Bourgeois. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994
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