{"product_id":"recueil-des-secrets-de-louyse-bourgeois","title":"Recueil des secrets de Louyse Bourgeois","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 2001, Salon Verlag has invited more than thirty artists to transform existing publications of their choice into artist’s books in the fullest sense of the term. Published under the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series, these “metabooks” include interventions by artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff, Mark Dion, Albert Oehlen, Thomas Demand, Gregor Schneider, Peter Doig, Luc Tuymans, and Berlinde De Bruyckere. For each title, Salon Verlag has produced a limited-edition of ex libris multiples, and a collector’s edition accompanied by a unique work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor her “metabook”, Louise Bourgeois chose a historical publication written by the French midwife Louyse Bourgeois, known as La Boursier. Renowned for attending the birth of Queen Marie de’ Medici’s son, the future Louis XIII, La Boursier authored one of the earliest French obstetrical treatises to incorporate anatomical observations, becoming the first woman in France to publish a medical text. Her treatise unfolds as a detailed account of observations and practices concerning sterility, miscarriage, fertility, childbirth, and diseases affecting women and newborns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLouise Bourgeois’s intervention is deliberately restrained: rather than altering the historical text, she “undusts” it through three contemporary drawings: a newly designed cover and back cover and an evocative ex libris. Through this subtle act of recontextualization, Bourgeois invites the reader to reconsider the historical treatise through the lens of contemporary discourses surrounding female corporeality and its representation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54335197282643,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/LouiseBourgeois_86f7df0c-2e20-4599-9c54-cf3e8ea9d7e7.png?v=1789370724","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/recueil-des-secrets-de-louyse-bourgeois","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}