@article{ART002481931},
author={Heekyeong Yun},
title={Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2019},
number={45},
pages={93-118},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004}
TY - JOUR
AU - Heekyeong Yun
TI - Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 45
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 93
EP - 118
SN - 1598-7728
AB - One of the central issues in Louise Bourgeois’s art is the body. This paper approaches this issue from multiple perspectives. Bourgeois’s Portrait, for example, in its glistening viscosity and shapelessness, evokes the fluidity of the body’s internal matrix instead of its external appearance. The mucus and diffuse corporeality visualizes the concept of “the formless” and the “base materialism” of George Bataille on the one hand, and the “abject” of Julia Kristeva on the other. Works such as Fillette and the Janus series embody the “part object,” the fragmented body as a target of the aggressive death drive in unconscious psychic life, while it disrupts the categorical difference between the sexes. It is differentiated from the “partial figure” of the modern sculpture, which distills the body into pure form. The obsessive repetition of the bisexual body in Avenza and Cumul is an important characteristic of the “part object.” Furthermore, it reminds us of the schizoid system of “desiring production” of the “body without organs” outlined by Deleuze and Guattari. In She Fox, Bourgeois visualizes the body of the mother as a hybrid of fox and woman. It represents the mother as a strong and powerful woman who disrupts the patriarchal authority. The body images in Bourgeois’s art are expressions of the destructive energy at the presymbolic and presexual psychic level. Bourgeois combines them with the feministic strategy and attempts to disrupt the phallocentrism in modern art and in the symbolic system as a whole.
KW - Louise Bourgeois;body;part object;feminism;formless;abject art;desublimation
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
ER -
Heekyeong Yun. (2019). Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. Journal of History of Modern Art, 45, 93-118.
Heekyeong Yun. 2019, "Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.45, pp.93-118. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun "Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art" Journal of History of Modern Art 45 pp.93-118 (2019) : 93.
Heekyeong Yun. Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. 2019; 45 : 93-118. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun. "Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art" Journal of History of Modern Art no.45(2019) : 93-118.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun. Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. Journal of History of Modern Art, 45, 93-118. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun. Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2019; 45 93-118. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun. Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. 2019; 45 : 93-118. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
Heekyeong Yun. "Images of the Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Art" Journal of History of Modern Art no.45(2019) : 93-118.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..45.004
