Exploring Art with Louise Bourgeois

A fun and colorful book for children on French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Exploring Art with Louise Bourgeois uncovers the artist’s memories of her childhood through art and reveals the symbolic meaning of Bourgeois’s signature spider as it journeys through her life.

This book is part of the Exploring Art collection, which invites young readers to open their minds to the depth and breadth of global art history. Each book explores the key concepts of an artist’s oeuvre, their sources of inspiration and a selection of their most important artworks. Guiding questions, a glossary, reflections and activity pages encourage conversations between parent and child.

The book contains original illustrations. No artwork images are reproduced.