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Bourgeois’s Maman

  • National Gallery of Canada, Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4, Canada
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Arte, Teatri e Musei
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Inglese

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Bourgeois’s Maman is one of the most famous of her works. The spider, she claimed, was not an ominous or frightening figure, but rather a representation of the protection and industry of her own beloved mother, who repaired tapestry for a living and died when the artist was 21. “I came from a family of repairers,” she said. “The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

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