Fillette

1938–2010 · Lugar de trabajo

New York City

1960s

New materials: latex, bronze and stone

In the 1960s Bourgeois began using latex, bronze and stone; her works grew larger and increasingly referred to the central theme of her art, the traumatic experience of childhood.

1966

Joins the feminist movement

From 1966 Bourgeois became a participant in the feminist movement.

early 1970s

The “Sunday, bloody Sundays” salons

In the early 1970s Bourgeois held gatherings at her home in Chelsea that filled with young artists and students whose work she critiqued. Her ruthlessness in critique and her dry sense of humour gave the meetings their name, “Sunday, bloody Sundays”.

1970s

Joins the Fight Censorship Group

Bourgeois aligned herself with activists and became a member of the Fight Censorship Group, a feminist anti-censorship collective founded by the artist Anita Steckel; in the 1970s the group defended the use of sexual imagery in art.