Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture, 1947-2000

Somers, Lynn M.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

01/2025

328

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9781350378865

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Introduction
0.1 Art and the Aesthetics of Play
0.2 Art and Transitional Objects

1: Femme Maison and the Materiality of Home (1945-1949)
1.1 Affects of Home Space
1.2 Metaphors of Body and Home
1.3 Home and the Material Unconscious
1.4 Environments of Estrangement
1.5 Unbearable Objects

2: Personages: Making, Transition, and Use (1947-1955)
2.1 Paradoxical Objects
2.2 Matter, Making, and Materiality
2.3 Sculpture Embodied
2.4 Sculpture as Theoretical Object
2.5 Objects for Losing One's Balance

3: Unruly Objects (1960-1968)
3.1 Pliable Stuff
3.2 Bound and Unbound
3.3 How to Undo an Object, or the Aesthetics of Undoing
3.4 How to Disturb the Order of Things
3.5 How to Use a Sculptural Object

4: Janus: Mothers, Ambivalence, and Play (1968-1989)
4.1 The Beginning(and End)of Softness
4.2 Paradoxes of Madness and Reason
4.3 War in the Nursery
4.4 Ruthless Love
4.5 Objects of Play and Imagination
4.6 Not Less than Everything

5: Cells: Evocative Object Worlds (1990-2000)
5.1 Containers and Containing Spaces
5.2 Cells as Bodily Spaces
5.3 Hidden Worlds
5.4 Collections, or Places, for Getting Lost
5.5 The Value of Nonsense

Conclusion
Index
Louise Bourgeois; Sculptures; Transitional Objects; Transformative Sculptural Objects; D. W. Winnicott; Aesthetics of Play; Object Relationships; Modernism; Postmodernism; Intricate Sculptural Objects; Architectural Spaces; Aesthetic Psychology