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Narrative inside out: Louise Bourgeois' Spider as Theoretical Object

Bal, Mieke

Oxford art journal, 1999-01, Vol.22 (2), p.103-126 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Narrative inside out: Louise Bourgeois' Spider as Theoretical Object
  • Autor: Bal, Mieke
  • Assuntos: Architecture ; Art photography ; Folktales ; Narrative art ; Narrative modes ; Narratives ; Narratology ; Spiders ; Steels ; Visual arts
  • É parte de: Oxford art journal, 1999-01, Vol.22 (2), p.103-126
  • Descrição: Louise Bourgeois' recent work challenges the cultural habit of reducing expressions in any medium to the narratives they are purported to convey. How can visual works of art, specifically sculptures that resist coherent figurative readings, tell stories? And what is the point of attempting to answer such a question anyway? An installation from Bourgeois' work of the last decade is examined here through this double question. The answers lie in the realm where sculpture becomes architecture and architecture sculpture. Where these two domains of incompatible scale, volume, and density bounce back on each other, narrative becomes a tool, not a meaning; a mediator, not a solution; a participant, not an outsider. An analysis of the 1997 installation of "Spider" demonstrates the tensions between the compulsion to narrative - a mood mobilizing memory - and the impossibility to come up with specific narrative content. But it is in the attempt to do justice to the work's visuality by producing a description of it that its vibrant narrativity becomes a philosophical statement about vision. For the attempt to describe flounders in the entanglement between object and process that this work, in the present viewing, seems to utter. "Spider," it will be argued, is therefore a theoretical object.
  • Editor: Oxford University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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