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Louise Bourgeois, Hanging Lair (detail), 1963, plaster. (Photo: Peter Moore.)

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Louise Bourgeois, Lair (detail), 1968, bronze. (Photo: Peter Moore

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marble vases and pitchers made for the tourist trade. The most impressive use of these forms is The Marchers, shown at the 1972-73 Whitney Annual, in which a large number of faceted columns of varying sizes and colors were placed on the floor in neither chaotic nor ordered rows. The image of a solemn mob was augmented, not entirely successfully, by a sweeping light which gave the effect of movement; also, implied, was the FBI's "searching" at demonstrations. Bourgeois has always been politically active and The Marchers, the black bullet pieces, and an evocative "Molotov Cocktail," noted the existence of the Vietnam war. One of the sculptures which prefigures the dramatic quality of The Marchers was The Blind Leading the Blind - a black lintel and spiked post piece made in 1949, around the time that Bourgeois, with Duchamp and Ozenfant, was investigated by the

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