ID: 700009260 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009260	Record Type: Movable Work
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Maman (sculpture (visual works); Louise Bourgeois (French-American sculptor, 1911-2010); 1999; Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom); T12625)

Note: Large steel sculpture depicting a spider protecting eggs made of marble. Maman was made for the opening of Tate Modern in May 2000 as part of Bourgeois’s commission for the Turbine Hall, the grand central space of the museum. Maman is a monumental steel spider, so large that it can only be installed out of doors, or inside a building of industrial scale. Supported on eight slender, knobbly legs, its body is suspended high above the ground, allowing the viewer to walk around and underneath it; the largest of a series of steel spider sculptures that Bourgeois created in the second half of the 1990s.

Titles:

Maman (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U,English-P,L,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 1999

Creator Display:

Louise Bourgeois (French-American sculptor, 1911-2010) [preferred]

artist Bourgeois, Louise (French-American sculptor, 1911-2010) [500057350]

Locations:

Current: Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500301641] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T12625

Credit Line: Presented by the artist 2008

Display Materials: steel, marble

	steel (alloy) [300133751]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, <iron and iron alloy>, iron alloy)

	marble (rock) [300011443]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: height: 9 m (30 feet); leg span: 10 m (approx. 32 feet)

Cultures:

European (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	modern (generic time frame) [300379388] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <generic styles| periods| and cultures>)

General Subject:

animals (preferred,aboutness)

Specific Subjects:

	spider (animal) [300249715]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Arthropoda (phylum), Chelicerata (subphylum), Arachnida (class)) (AAT)

	motherhood [300221442]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, biological concepts) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Maman	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 10 April 2017
	........ Matravers, Introducing Philosophy of Art (2013) 85
	........ Umberger, Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds (2007) 353

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 10 April 2017

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Matravers, Introducing Philosophy of Art (2013) 85
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 10 April 2017