South American conceptual artist, Marta Minujín, designed an
installation called ‘The Parthenon of Books.’
Minujin compiled a list of 170 books banned in various parts of the
world, and she asked the public for help in gathering 100,000 copies of them.
The installation has been constructed, with the same
dimensions of the real-life Parthenon in Athens, at Friedrichsplatz Park where,
on May 19, 1933, Nazi sympathisers burned an estimated 2,000 prohibited books by
Jewish or Marxist writers.
The exhibition ends on September 17, at the end of which the
books will be re-circulated to the public.
The artist also constructed a replica in Buenos Aires in
1983, choosing books banned during the Argentinian military dictatorship from
1976 to 1983. The Tate Gallery in London
has a documentary record of this project:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/minujin-the-parthenon-of-books-t14343.
For more photos and information about the current exhibition,
go to http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/07/05/parthenon-of-books-germany/?lpaffil=lp-affiliates.
And for a video, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQ5J-_9r6c.
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