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Louise Bourgeois
Number Seventy-Two, 1972

Top image was taken before
reinstallation in 2006.
Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson

Bottom Image taken after
reinstallation.
Photograph by Colleen A. Zlock

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Louise Bourgeois American, born France, 1911-

Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972
Marble
10" x 17' x 10'

Over 1,000 individually cut marble cylinders clustered together are a meditation on the relationship of the individual to the group. The metaphor applies to political life as well as to the world visible only through the lens of a microscope. Bourgeois explains: "The No March also means accepting you're almost nobody, [that] you have to merge with thousands like you."

Reinstalled in 2006 at floor level as it was originally exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973.

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