书名：Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings / 路易丝·布尔乔亚：失眠时期的素描
定价：816.0
ISBN：9783908247395
作者：Louise Bourgeois, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Elisabeth Bronfen
版次：1
出版时间：2025-11

内容提要：

题 目：Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings / 路易丝·布尔乔亚：失眠时期的素描

作 者：Louise Bourgeois, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Elisabeth Bronfen

出 版：Hauser & Wirth Publishers，2025

装 帧：平装双卷本，带书套，580页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：25.5 x 6 x 33 cm

Bourgeois' thought-provoking collection of more than 200 works, produced during sleepless nights, provides inimitable insight into her psyche

Insomnia was a lifetime companion for Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper whatever thoughts, memories and images surfaced during her long, sleepless nights. The resulting 220 drawings are the quintessence of all the impulses, sources and motifs that inspired her work. The Insomnia Drawings shows Bourgeois' total mind at work: drawings and sketches alternate with poems and aphorisms in both French and English, interspersed with notes referring to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The resulting series is a unique mirror of an extraordinary woman's life and work: beautiful, disquieting, passionate, inquiring and imbued with a quirky sense of humor.

As soon as the artist agreed to entrust The Insomnia Drawings to the Daros Collection, it was clear that this extraordinary work should be presented as a book. The result is a handsome paper-bound and slipcased two-volume publication. The first volume contains facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the 220 drawings. The second volume provides the reader with valuable background information on this complex and exhilaratingly beautiful work of art. Marie-Louise Bernadac, a leading Bourgeois scholar, places The Insomnia Drawings in the context of Bourgeois' oeuvre, providing biographical references for many notes, and pointing out the leitmotifs of Bourgeois' imaginary universe. In a lucid and beautifully written essay, Elisabeth Bronfen traces the nocturnal mysteries of insomnia and places this work of art in a larger cultural context. Meanwhile, the second volume offers a chronology and annotated transcriptions of all texts and notes. This gorgeous collection of work is a must for anyone wanting to take part in the imaginative journey through Louise Bourgeois' psyche. 

布尔乔亚在无数个不眠之夜创作的200多件发人深省的作品，为我们洞察她的精神世界提供了独一无二的视角。

失眠是路易丝·布尔乔亚（1911–2010）一生的伴侣。1994年11月至1995年6月间，她将漫长无眠的夜晚中浮现的所有思绪、记忆和意象都倾注于纸上。由此诞生的220幅画作，集中体现了激发她创作的所有冲动、源泉和主题。《失眠画作》展现了布尔乔亚全身心投入创作的状态：绘画与素描同法语和英语的诗歌及格言交替呈现，其间还穿插着记录日常生活喧嚣的笔记。这部系列作品如同一面独特的镜子，映照出这位非凡女性的生活与创作：美好、令人不安、充满激情、爱探究，且洋溢着一种奇特的幽默感。

当这位艺术家同意将《失眠画作》交由达罗斯收藏馆收藏时，人们便清楚这部非凡的作品应当以书籍的形式呈现。最终呈现的是一套装帧精美的平装双卷本，外带书套。第一卷包含220幅画作正反两面的复制品。第二卷为读者提供了关于这部复杂而绝妙的艺术作品的宝贵背景信息。布尔乔亚研究领域的权威学者玛丽-路易丝·伯纳达克将《失眠画作》置于布尔乔亚的全部作品中进行解读，为许多笔记提供了传记方面的参考，并指出了布尔乔亚想象世界中的核心主题。伊丽莎白·布罗芬在一篇思路清晰、文笔优美的文章中，探寻了失眠的夜间奥秘，并将这部艺术作品置于更广阔的文化背景中进行考量。此外，第二卷还包含年表以及所有文字和笔记的注释转录。对于任何想要踏上探索路易丝·布尔乔亚精神世界之旅的人来说，这部精美的作品集都是必读之作。