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This Assyrian-style monument commemorates the death of Josef Trumpeldor, who was killed by Arabs in 1920 at the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai. His heroic death and the idea of “one against many” became…
Contributor:
Avraham Melnikov
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Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine (Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934
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In Tevet’s deconstructionist wall sculpture, Jamma’in II, painted boxes and other shapes, some of which look like tables and chairs, are arranged around a yellow ring. All the objects seem to be in…
Contributor:
Nahum Tevet
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1990
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Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…
Contributor:
Dani Karavan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1977–1988
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In The Table As It Is, a tabletop perched on precarious legs and precariously set with bottles of wines and glasses seems about to split apart. Dominey’s sculptures present ordinary objects found in…
Contributor:
Drora Dominey
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1989
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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Averbuch uses paving stones, railroad ties, steel, glass, and other reclaimed materials in his sculptures, repurposing them but also allowing them to retain signs of their utilitarian past. His works…
Contributor:
Ilan Averbuch
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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The Great Vehicle is one of dozens of wheeled sculptures Rantzer created for “The Zionists,” his 2001 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. The overall themes of the show were migration…
Contributor:
Philip Rantzer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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Rabinovitz’s sculptures are characterized by the use of minimal elements that are granted symbolic meaning through the text or title that accompanies them, commonly taken from the Bible or other…
Contributor:
Israel Rabinovitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990