LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE COMPLETE PRINTS & BOOKS

MoMA Staff Contributors

Curatorial Concept and Texts
Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

Design Management
Allegra Burnette, former Creative Director

Project Management
Maggie Lederer, Product Manager, Digital Media/Creative Team

Cataloguing and Research
Sewon Kang, Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books
Katie Campbell, Christina Costello, Majida Mugharbel, and Lauren Roberts, former Cataloguers, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
Arianna Packard, former part-time Cataloguer, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
Carol Smith, former Research Assistant, Louise Bourgeois Archive Project
Sarah Suzuki, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

Collection and Exhibition Technologies
Ian Eckert, Associate Director
Kathryn Ryan, Senior Coordinator
Jeri Moxley, former Manager

Website Development and Assistance
Dina Brunstein, Senior Developer, Digital Media/Creative Team
Jaclyn Avidon, freelancer, Digital Media/Creative Team
Dan Phiffer, former Media Technology Developer, Digital Media
Nina Callaway and Sara Dayton, former freelancers, Digital Media

Editorial
Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Creative Team

Digital Imaging
Rob Gerhardt, Collections Photographer, Imaging and Visual Resources
Robert Kastler, Director, Imaging and Visual Resources
Staff photographers, Imaging and Visual Resources
Peter Butler, former Collections Photographer, Imaging and Visual Resources
Kate Keller and Erik Landsberg, former Heads of Collections Imaging

Quotations

Quotations by the artist appear on many of the pages that provide background information and context for the catalogue of prints and illustrated books. The references for those quotations are as follows:

About the Artist
“Art is a guarantee of sanity” appears in several of Bourgeois’s artworks.

Abstraction
Bourgeois, quoted in “Self-Expression Is Sacred and Fatal: Statements,” in Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall (Zurich: Ammann, 1992), 194.

Architecture
Bourgeois, quoted in Joseph Helfenstein, “Louise Bourgeois: Architecture as a Study in Memory,” in Jerry Gorovoy and Danielle Tilkin, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture (Madrid: Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, 1999), 26.

Body Parts
Bourgeois, quoted in “A Conversation with Bernard Marcadé,” (Excerpt from an interview for the film Louise Bourgeois, by Camille Guichard, Terra Luna Productions, Paris, 1993. Translated from the French by Caroline Beamish and David Britt.), in Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in association with London: Violette, 1998), 251.

Books, Portfolios & Series
Bourgeois, quoted in Deborah Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Deborah Wye and Carol Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994), 13.

Chronology
Bourgeois, quoted in “Time” (Paulo Herkenhoff notes, May 8, 1997), in Frances Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois (London: Tate, 2007), 288.

Essay, 1994
Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 26.

Essay, 2017
Bourgeois, quoted in “Statements from an Interview with Donald Kuspit,” (first published in 1988 by Random House and Elizabeth Avedon Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists, NY, in Louise Bourgeois by Donald Kuspit), in Bernadac and Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997, 166.

Fabric Works
Bourgeois, quoted in Brooke Hodge, “Cell (Clothes) 1996,” in Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois, 76.

Faces and Portraits
Bourgeois, quoted in “Untitled,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 167.

Figures
Bourgeois, quoted in Deborah Wye, Louise Bourgeois (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982), 79.

Home Page
Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 14.

Motherhood and Family
Bourgeois, quoted in Interview with Esther Harriet, 1989, in “Family,” in Morris, ed., Louise Bourgeois, 127.

Nature
Bourgeois, quoted in “Rayons de soleil sur la mer,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 132.

Objects
Bourgeois, quoted in “Collecting: an Unruly Passion,” (Artist’s review of the book Collecting: an Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger (Princeton University Press, 1993) first published in Summer 1994 Artforum, vol. 32, no. 10, p. 11.), in Bernadac and Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997, 275.

Spiders
Louise Bourgeois, Ode à Ma Mère (Paris: Les Éditions du Solstice, 1995), 9.

Spirals
Bourgeois, quoted in “Self-Expression Is Sacred and Fatal: Statements,” in Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall, 179.

Words
Bourgeois, quoted in “He Disappeared into Complete Silence,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 72.

Techniques
Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 12.

Themes
Bourgeois, quoted in Wye, “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker,” in Wye and Smith, The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, 15.