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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.
Prisoners, Naked and Bound, in Embossed Relief
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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, Architecture, Sculpture

Categories:

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