"Louise Bourgeois invented confessional art"
reads the june 1st online telegraph uk article written by richard dorment.
"Seeing what she had unleashed, Louise was off and running, an A-list celebrity more famous for what she said about her work than for any intrinsic aesthetic quality of emotional truth it may have had."
"One thing you have to hand to her: she invented confessional art. She’s Tracey Emin’s spiritual grandmother. When Tate Modern opened in 2000, it was she who filled the Turbine Hall with a giant bronze spider, vacuous and overblown and inevitably entitled Maman ('Mummy’). I remember wondering at the time whether this kind of art, which means nothing in particular unless you understand its symbolism, would still be admired a generation after the death of the artist who made it. Now we’ll see."
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