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Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Amy Novesky
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Description for Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Hardback. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. Illustrator(s): Arsenault, Isabelle. Num Pages: 40 pages, 40 Full-colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; 3JMC; 5AF; YNA; YNM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 238 x 288 x 12. Weight in Grams: 538.
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise's own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois's childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With ... Read more
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise's own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois's childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abrams
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781419718816
SKU
V9781419718816
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Amy Novesky
Formerly an editor at Chronicle Books, Amy Novesky is the author of Me, Frida which won the best children's picture book in the English at the Latino Book Awards. She lives in San Francisco. Isabelle Arsenault is an award-winning illustrator whose first children's book received the prestigious Governor General's Award for children's literature in French (illustration). She lives in Montreal. ... Read more
Reviews for Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
An inventive introduction to the work of a celebrated artist and a useful mentor text for exploring how language and imaginative, varied illustrations can work together to convey an idea.
School Library Journal
STARRED REVIEW
The evocative, hand-lettered text, peppered with quotations in red ink, provides an impressionistic portrait of the memories, colors, sounds, and images propelling ... Read more
School Library Journal
STARRED REVIEW
The evocative, hand-lettered text, peppered with quotations in red ink, provides an impressionistic portrait of the memories, colors, sounds, and images propelling ... Read more