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Cloth lullaby : the woven life of Louise Bourgeois  Cover Image Book Book

Cloth lullaby : the woven life of Louise Bourgeois

Novesky, Amy (author.). Arsenault, Isabelle, 1978- (illustrator.).

Summary: Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her mother and her past are stitched into all of Louise's works.
A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.

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  • ISBN: 9781419718816 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1419718819 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Subject: Mothers and daughters
Tapestry
Weavers
Bourgeois, Louise 1911-2010 Themes, motives
Bourgeois, Louise 1911-2010

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Covington Branch J 730.92 Bour (Text) 33126020745828 JNonfiction Available -

Summary: A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her mother and her past are stitched into all of Louise's works.
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