{"product_id":"louise-bourgeois-he-disappeared-into-complete-silence","title":"Louise Bourgeois - He Disappeared Into Complete Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003eReedition of the book He Disappeared into Complete Silence, created in 1947 by Louise Bourgeois at the beginning of her career, two years after her first solo exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproducing the book in facsimile, with its original format and layout, this edition includes a French translation on separate sheets and is supplemented by two previously unpublished texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Léa Vuong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the most important woman artist of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and moved to New York in 1938, where she died in 2010. Impossible to classify and spanning numerous artistic movements, her work has influenced generations of artists. Deeply personal—from her celebrated monumental spiders to her installations—it explores sexuality, femininity, childhood, and fundamental fears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated in 1947, He Disappeared into Complete Silence is a pivotal work that marks Louise Bourgeois’s transition from painting to sculpture. Produced in S. W. Hayter’s studio and initially printed in an edition of ten, this artist’s book brings together nine engravings of architectural forms—skyscrapers and geometric structures evoking New York—paired with short, enigmatic, ironic, and cruel narratives in which absence takes on countless forms. Foreshadowing the “Personages,” the “Femme-Maisons,” and, half a century later, the “Cells,” the book reveals the foundational role of writing in her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition of the artist’s book accompanies the solo exhibition Louise Bourgeois, Extreme Tension. Drawings and Prints, held at the BNF (Richelieu site) from October 20, 2026, to February 21, 2027.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2026\u003cbr\u003eFrench \/ English\u003cbr\u003e56 pages + 9 sheets\u003cbr\u003e18 x 25.5 cm\u003cbr\u003ePaperback with flap\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-2-37372-259-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© Éditions Dilecta\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yvon Lambert Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59659302863196,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0085\/4913\/8498\/files\/he-disappeared-into-complete-silence_0fc2e124-100f-48e6-b33a-b568929bd019.jpg?v=1793097541","url":"https:\/\/www.yvon-lambert.com\/products\/louise-bourgeois-he-disappeared-into-complete-silence","provider":"Yvon Lambert Paris","version":"1.0","type":"link"}