What is Louise Bourgeois?
{{Infobox artist | name = Louise Bourgeois | image =Louise Bourgeois, c. 2000.jpg | alt = Louise Bourgeois portrait | caption = Louise Bourgeois (1994). | birth_name = Louise Joséphine Bourgeois | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|12|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|5|31|1911|12|25|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Manhattan]], New York City, U.S. | nationality = [[French American|French-American]] | field = [[sculpture]], [[installation art]], [[painting]], [[printmaking]] | training = [[Sorbonne]], [[Académie de la Grande Chaumière]], [[École du Louvre]], [[École des Beaux-Arts]] | movement = [[Modernism]], [[Surrealism]], [[Feminist art]] | works = [[Spider (Bourgeois)|Spider]], Cells, [[Maman (sculpture)|Maman]], Cumul I, The Destruction of the Father | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = [[Praemium Imperiale]] | website = }} [[File:Maman de Louise Bourgeois - Bilbao.jpg|thumb|Bourgeois's ''[[Maman]]'' sculpture at the [[Guggenheim Museum Bilbao|Guggenheim Museum]] in [[Bilbao]]]] '''Louise Joséphine Bourgeois''' (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a [[France|French]]-[[Americans|American]] [[artist]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Louise Bourgeois|publisher=The Art Story|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist-bourgeois-louise.htm|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> She was best-known for her [[installation art]] and large-scale [[sculpture]]s. She was also a [[paint]]er and [[printmaker]]. Bourgeois explored many themes over her career, including [[domesticity]], family, [[human sexuality|sexuality]] and death. Bourgeois was born in [[Paris]], [[France]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Louise Bourgeois|publisher=Easton Foundation|url=http://www.theeastonfoundation.org/biography|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> ==Honors and awards== *1977: Honorary doctorate from [[Yale University]] *1981: Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/Booko