Cloth lullaby the woven life of Louise Bourgeois
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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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
[2016]
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781419718816 1419718819 |
| Author Notes: | Amy Novesky is the author of Georgia in Hawaii and Me, Frida , which won the Pura Belpré Honor Award and was an ALA Notable Book. She lives in San Francisco. |
