Arachnophilia: Spiders in Art and Folklore

Despite this, spiders have held varying symbolic meanings through history and culture, both positive and negative, inhabiting oral traditions, literature, poetry, as well as art. Images of the spider recur throughout Louise Bourgeois’s work, signifying aspects of her childhood and relationship to her mother, a tapestry restorer. “The spider—why the spider?” As her celebrated sculpture Spider IV comes to auction in Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction (27 April, Hong Kong), we look at some of ways people and cultures have contended with this polarising eight-legged creature.

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Arachnophilia: Spiders in Art and Folklore

Arachnophilia: Spiders in Art and Folklore

Arachnophilia: Spiders in Art and Folklore

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