'The Parthenon of Books' is constructed with 100,000 banned books at historic Nazi book burning site

in architecture •  7 years ago 

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The Parthenon of Books in Kassel, Germany is part of the Documenta 14 art festival. With the help of students from Kassel University, Minujín identified over 170 titles that were or are banned in different countries around the world, and constructed the full-size replica of the iconic temple from those books, plastic sheeting, and steel. — Bored Panda

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Created by Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, 74, the monumental replica of Greek Parthenon consists of 100,000 banned books and symbolizes the resistance to political repression.

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This is really impressive. It must've taken so much time and work to acquire all these books and build this impressive structure. Such a powerful visual

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