Briony Fer says Louise Bourgeois abandoned painting when painting itself abandoned the representation of an external world and its phenomena in the view that ‘the most ambitious art had to be abstract and obey certain pictorial protocols – an opinion that, with all such doxa, was fundamentally exclusionary and to which she never adhered’. This is a blog on Clare Davies & Briony Fer (2022) ‘Louise Bourgeois: Paintings’ – Steve_Bamlett_blog

Briony Fer says Louise Bourgeois abandoned painting when painting itself abandoned the representation of an external world and its phenomena in the view that ‘the most ambitious art had to be abstract and obey certain pictorial protocols – an opinion that, with all such doxa, was fundamentally exclusionary and to which she never adhered’. This is a blog on Clare Davies & Briony Fer (2022) ‘Louise Bourgeois: Paintings’

Briony Fer, in an essay in the catalogue of the latest retrospective of Louise Bourgeois’ paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, says Bourgeois abandoned painting when painting itself abandoned the representation of an external world and its phenomena in the view that ‘the most ambitious art had to be abstract and … Continue reading Briony Fer says Louise Bourgeois abandoned painting when painting itself abandoned the representation of an external world and its phenomena in the view that ‘the most ambitious art had to be abstract and obey certain pictorial protocols – an opinion that, with all such doxa, was fundamentally exclusionary and to which she never adhered’. This is a blog on Clare Davies & Briony Fer (2022) ‘Louise Bourgeois: Paintings’