Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
You don't even have to be a fan to appreciate how Nixon takes on Louise Bourgeois's uncategorizable place within the canon, arguing that the great French artist's feminist critique of and reworking of surrealism took place via a psychoanalytically informed "habitual inconstancy" that put her at odds with the formalist modernism that (still) underlies art history and criticism. The brilliant observations that Nixon tosses out on almost every page not only enrich our reading of Bourgeois's art, but reaccess psychoanalytic criticism with a gusto that makes the book required reading.
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