Nothings Monstered: Louise Bourgeois on the difference between French and American aesthetics

Louise Bourgeois on the difference between French and American aesthetics

I want a picture of the quilt now.

Now I want to make a version of that quilt.

Now if it were violence, Americans would be fine with it... 🫤

Just replace the penises with guns

Both are deadly, now that Roe was killed.

let's see the quilt? It'll go viral!

I kind of love Louise Bourgeois’s mother

"Don't play behind the tapestry, or the Gobelins will get you!"

"your mother's dick quilt. this is the blanket of a Frenchman. not as clumsy or random as a duvet; an elegant textile, for a more civilized age."

I'm reminded of the Bayeux tapestry replica in the Reading Museum having little shorts drawn over naughty bits.

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother. My mother? I'll tell you about my mother.

Cinema Paradiso (2001)

my first thought too

GLORIOUS

I laughed so hard I choked.

And it kept him warm as he smoked himself to sleep to accordion music.

It kept her warm as she.....

Yes, I did notice my mistake. How kind of you to correct it.

I want a genital quilt!

Sure Jeanne.

This explains so much about Louise Bourgeois 🖤

Excellent!

Bravo.

Hah! I bought a tablecloth in Cambodia decorated with apsaras (topless Angels). First time I used it in the US someone asked, “Why are there boobs on this?” I was so used to seeing them, I hadn’t even noticed until then.

English🍁in France, got used to all that "art". It was a trip to Greece that marked me: on the hotel counter at eye level were postcards of statutes made by PRETENTIOUS artists* or perhaps inspired by their donkey. *Genitals so big & protruding, they could have been used as cloak pegs.

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