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Assembly Hall, Butyrka Prison
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For three years, Lamm was imprisoned in the Gulag (the Soviet system of labor camps) for applying for an exit visa, and he documented this experience in drawings and paintings. The red banner on the…

Contributor:

Leonid Lamm

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Date:

1986

Subjects:

Art, Painting, Punishment, Government, Censorship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Ink and watercolor drawing depicting a man facing viewer with guard standing on checkerboard floor surrounded by prison cells, with one cell open showing a prisoner inside as a guard holds door, and a second floor also visible with a guard room, men walking, and open fencing around the perimeter.
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

Categories:

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