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Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site
Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning SiteArtist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site
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Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site

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Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, 74, has created a monumental replica of the Greek Parthenon from 100,000 copies of banned books. According to the artist, it symbolizes the resistance to political repression.

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.

But probably what is Germany’s most controversial book – Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” – will not figure on the Parthenon. And for a good reason: the Nazis were notorious censors of books. In fact, Minujín’s work stands on a historic site where the Nazis burnt some 2,000 books in 1933 as part of a very broad campaign of censorship. “Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people,” Heinrich Heine said in the 19th century.

More info: documenta14.de (h/t: mmm)

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    Audrey
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Harry Potter banned ? They are afraid if people learn magic tricks ?

    Kjorn
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    magic is evil!! but pedophilia is good according the the vatican

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    Virgil Blue
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what will happen if the book you want is part of a pillar?

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    Elizabeth Newton
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    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While I love it and it's impressive as hell, that's a lot of plastic wrap :/

    Abdellah Najime
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that there's a whole bunch of books that I have to read..

    Maria Lazaridou
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where on earth is Mickey mouse banned? And why?

    Marcos Graff
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty much in every communist state thrugh history and in some military anti-imperialist dictatorships. Franco in Spain banned it, Cahvez in Venezuela also did it.

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    Caroline Driver
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I noticed Twilight in there. That should be banned because it's awful writing, nothing else.

    Vivien Szaniszlo
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really love books, and every kind of arts. And this is both of them :)

    Nancy E
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't stop looking at these pictures. What an amazing artist !

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    Audrey
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Harry Potter banned ? They are afraid if people learn magic tricks ?

    Kjorn
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    magic is evil!! but pedophilia is good according the the vatican

    Load More Replies...
    Virgil Blue
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what will happen if the book you want is part of a pillar?

    Load More Replies...
    Elizabeth Newton
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While I love it and it's impressive as hell, that's a lot of plastic wrap :/

    Abdellah Najime
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that there's a whole bunch of books that I have to read..

    Maria Lazaridou
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where on earth is Mickey mouse banned? And why?

    Marcos Graff
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty much in every communist state thrugh history and in some military anti-imperialist dictatorships. Franco in Spain banned it, Cahvez in Venezuela also did it.

    Load More Replies...
    Caroline Driver
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I noticed Twilight in there. That should be banned because it's awful writing, nothing else.

    Vivien Szaniszlo
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really love books, and every kind of arts. And this is both of them :)

    Nancy E
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't stop looking at these pictures. What an amazing artist !

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