“Art is a guarantee of sanity."

February 4, 2013 4:21 AM

Louise Bourgeois; The Complete Prints & Books will document every print and illustrated book created by Louise Bourgeois, ultimately comprising some 3,500 entries. Entries will be added to the site once a year, according to theme. The majority of the works in the catalogue are in MoMA’s collection; others may not have been examined by MoMA cataloguers, and their documentation was gathered from various sources. Also, Louise Bourgeois Art 21
posted by R. Mutt (3 comments total)

Holy cow! That's an amazing resource--and will become an extraordinary research tool as it nears completion. The book form of a catalogue raisonne is really going to be a thing of the past, isn't it?

I love the capacity to compare different states of a print side by side--although I wish you could zoom in and out in the comparison windows.
posted by yoink at 9:15 AM on February 4

Amazing! Thank you for posting this.
posted by forkisbetter at 11:37 AM on February 4

Wow, awesomesauce.
posted by Theta States at 11:49 AM on February 5