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Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was once a world-renowned brand new artist noted for her sculptures product of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her so much famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high.
 
Just as spiders spin and service their webs, Louise’s own mother was once a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she become a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric all through her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois’s childhood experiences weaving along with her loving, nurturing mother provided the foundation for her so much famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the connection between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all.


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