Insomnia was a lifelong companion of Louise Bourgeois’s nights. Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper the thoughts, memories, and images that surfaced during these sleepless hours. The resultant 220 drawings represent the quintessence of the impulses, sources, and motifs that inspired Bourgeois’s work. Originally published in 2001 by Daros and Scalo, the two-volume set of The Insomnia Drawings is newly available courtesy of The Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
In Volume I, both sides of each drawing are faithfully reproduced at a 95% scale; Bourgeois composed mostly visual imagery on the drawings’ fronts, and inscribed the backs with poetic writings, aphorisms, and various notes related to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Volume II features essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen, alongside a chronology and checklist of works, including full transcriptions of Bourgeois’s writings, which were written in French and English. At once beautiful and disquieting, humorous and passionate, 'The Insomnia Drawings' are a unique mirror of an extraordinary artist’s life and work.
フランス系アメリカ人アーティスト、ルイーズ・ブルジョワ（Louise Bourgeois）作品集。
不眠症は作者の一生涯にわたり付きまとった。1994年11月から1995年6月にかけて、彼女は眠れない時間に浮かび上がった思考や記憶、イメージを紙に書き留めた。こうして生まれた220点のドローイングは、作者にインスピレーションを与えた衝動、源泉、モチーフの真髄を体現している。2001年に「Scalo and The Daros Collection」より刊行された本書は、「イーストン財団（The Easton Foundation）」と出版社「Hauser & Wirth」の協力により新たに刊行された。
