Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin
Public Access
Image
Passages is a memorial in Portbou, Spain, created by Karavan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou…

Contributor:

Dani Karavan

Places:

Portbou, Spain

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Art, Memorial, Exile, Holocaust, Cemetery

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of metal sculpture in the shape of a V through which the ocean and rocky outcropping beyond is visible.
Prisoners, Naked and Bound, in Embossed Relief
Restricted
Image
Prisoners, naked and bound, in embossed relief, Assyria, Iron Age II, 9th century BCE. These prisoners, from a city in Syria, were conquered by the army of Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria (reigned…

Places:

Callah, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Exile

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture, Architecture
Relief of many figures in a row, some of whom are naked with hands tied behind their backs.