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8Two of the most original artists of the post-war period, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and Jenny Holzer (b. 1950), meet in this exceptional artist's book conceived and designed by Holzer to accompany the Bourgeois exhibition she has curated at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Holzer is internationally renowned for her exploration and subversion of public language in a wide variety of media and formats. Despite their formal differences, both artists share a strong interest in psychological and emotional states, such as love, desire, sexuality, rejection, jealousy, murder, suicide, dependency, and abandonment. Where Holzer approaches these subjects from a more socio-political angle, Bourgeois derives them from her own psychic life.