Born in Paris in 1911 and a New Yorker since 1938, Louise Bourgeois created a unique oeuvre that owes no allegiance to twentieth-century "isms" in the course of a career than has spanned more than sixty years. Her art is grounded in her own life and experience: "My goal is to re-experience a past emotion (...) to relive anxiety (...) anxiety is a passive state, and the object is to be active and take control."
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