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Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin
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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, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of metal sculpture in the shape of a V through which the ocean and rocky outcropping beyond is visible.
Library, August Bebel Square, Berlin
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Library is a site in August Bebel Square in Berlin, built on the spot where, in May 1933, thousands of Nazi sympathizers erected a bonfire and burned more than twenty thousand “decadent” books. A pane…

Contributor:

Micha Ullman

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1995

Subjects:

Art, Memorial, Holocaust, Censorship, Libraries, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
View of art installation from the top of a room with empty bookcases.