Abstract

This special issue on French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) brings together essays by curators and scholars who have spent time in her Archive, located next to the artist’s home in New York. This article presents the special issue and how it regroups contributions by authors who share the same object of study but who are rarely brought into dialogue with each other. They range from museum and gallery professionals to academics in art history and literary studies, who have written their contributions in French or in English. An interdisciplinary and bilingual space for established and new critical voices on Louise Bourgeois, this special issue is a scholarly état présent of the research undertaken at the Louise Bourgeois Archive. It brings to light interactions between word and image, literature and visual art in her work, and the importance of writing and words for Louise Bourgeois. This article also reflects on some of the risks faced by researchers in the Archive. It defines some of the tactics that such archival research requires, notably how distance, in order to assert an objective reading, can complement rather than cancel the seductive and feverish intimacy of archives and the interpretative gains they contain.

摘要

本期关于法裔美国艺术家路易丝·布尔乔亚（Louise Bourgeois，1911-2010 年）的特刊汇集了曾在她位于纽约艺术家家旁边的档案馆中度过时光的策展人和学者的文章。本文介绍了特刊以及它如何重新组合具有相同研究对象但很少相互对话的作者的贡献。他们的范围从博物馆和画廊专业人士到艺术史和文学研究的学者，他们用法语或英语撰写了他们的贡献。本期特刊是路易丝·布尔乔亚档案馆所进行研究的学术报告，是一个跨学科和双语空间，为路易丝·布尔乔亚的既定和新批评声音提供服务。它揭示了她作品中文字与图像、文学与视觉艺术之间的相互作用，以及文字和文字对路易丝·布尔乔亚的重要性。本文还反映了档案馆研究人员面临的一些风险。它定义了此类档案研究所需的一些策略，特别是距离如何能够补充而不是消除档案的诱人和狂热的亲密感以及它们所包含的解释性成果，以确保客观阅读。