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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…
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Israel Rabinovitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990
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Assurbanipal Feasting in Palace Garden, relief from the palace of Assurbanipal (reigned 669–627 BCE) in Nineveh. The king and his queen are surrounded by ornamental and fruit trees, palms, and vines…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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669–627 BCE
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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…
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Dani Karavan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1977–1988
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The young couple depicted here are in the act of embracing one another, their cheeks touching. They are one of the best-known examples of Georg Ehrlich’s representational bronze sculptures, which…
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Georg Ehrlich
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1950–1951
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William Zorach created Spirit of the Sea at the request of the City of Bath, which wanted a fountain for a city park. The sculpture is similar to others in his oeuvre in that it consists of a figure…
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William Zorach
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Bath, United States of America
Date:
1961
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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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Boots was composed of 17,000 pairs of army boots piled up in the gallery. The boots are an obvious reference to soldiers in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), but also evoke the piles of shoes of…
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Joshua Neustein, Georgette Batlle
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1969
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Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
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Vadim Sidur
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Pushkin, USSR (Pushkin, Russia)
Date:
1972
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Garden of Stones, a garden of trees growing from stone, was planted in 2003 by Goldsworthy, Holocaust survivors, and their families at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on a second-story rooftop. The…
Contributor:
Andy Goldsworthy
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2003