Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site
Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, 74, has created a monumental replica of the Greek Parthenon from 100,000 copies of banned books. According to the artist, it symbolizes the resistance to political repression.
The Parthenon of Books in Kassel, Germany is part of the Documenta 14 art festival. With the help of students from Kassel University, Minujín identified over 170 titles that were or are banned in different countries around the world, and constructed the full-size replica of the iconic temple from those books, plastic sheeting, and steel.
But probably what is Germany’s most controversial book – Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” – will not figure on the Parthenon. And for a good reason: the Nazis were notorious censors of books. In fact, Minujín’s work stands on a historic site where the Nazis burnt some 2,000 books in 1933 as part of a very broad campaign of censorship. “Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people,” Heinrich Heine said in the 19th century.
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Harry Potter banned ? They are afraid if people learn magic tricks ?
magic is evil!! but pedophilia is good according the the vatican
I wouldn't go as far as claiming that they think it's good but they are a bunch of evil frock wearing lizards for protecting those blasted kid molesting priests of theirs instead of protecting the victims and calling the authorities.
Agreed. Huge non-descript human shaped concrete statues could be put there with power generating umbrellas of wind and or solar type. I want always less enchanted with a suffering ancient hell and a lack of common sense truth because they were drugged, drunk, and deluded. They managed to scrawl some never understood bs on paper like material in a limited language with multiple meanings for the same words.
Sigh... don't be too surprised. I've a friend who thought the magic wand from universal studios will make objects fly at home too!
is (s)he 7?
Evangelical christians think anything that discusses magic is satanic because magic is always a product of Satan to them. Some will even go so far as to say televisions are satanic because they "transmit evil things".
Must be in the UK? Some groups of Christians also don't like Halloween there. They think it encourages kids to become satanists or something...
No it wasn't banned in the U.K., but I remember during the height of Harry Potters success there were book burnings in the US.
Harry Potter is a British book why would it be banned?
There are no Halloween or Harry Potter hating Christian groups here in the UK. All the Hardcore Christian groups are in the States.
None of what you describe is common (or uncommon!) practice in the UK.
Oh wait it says countries where it's banned. Lol then yeah no idea.
Hence why I said 'oh it says countries where it is banned'. I was kinda foggy headed and had just picked up 'banned books' and I think some UK churches and schools have banned the books.
HP books are very commonly banned from Christian schools. Idiots
Let me book my tickets... I wanna go there!
I see what you did there!
Me too, I need some new books to read.
You read my mind.
I wanna read those books !
But what will happen if the book you want is part of a pillar?
you order it from Amazon. #duh lol
You can get it at the end of the project, if you want to take the trip to germany. To the end of the documenta all of the books that are used in the Parthenon will be distributed to visitors of the exhibition.
Harry Potter banned ? They are afraid if people learn magic tricks ?
magic is evil!! but pedophilia is good according the the vatican
I wouldn't go as far as claiming that they think it's good but they are a bunch of evil frock wearing lizards for protecting those blasted kid molesting priests of theirs instead of protecting the victims and calling the authorities.
Agreed. Huge non-descript human shaped concrete statues could be put there with power generating umbrellas of wind and or solar type. I want always less enchanted with a suffering ancient hell and a lack of common sense truth because they were drugged, drunk, and deluded. They managed to scrawl some never understood bs on paper like material in a limited language with multiple meanings for the same words.
Sigh... don't be too surprised. I've a friend who thought the magic wand from universal studios will make objects fly at home too!
is (s)he 7?
Evangelical christians think anything that discusses magic is satanic because magic is always a product of Satan to them. Some will even go so far as to say televisions are satanic because they "transmit evil things".
Must be in the UK? Some groups of Christians also don't like Halloween there. They think it encourages kids to become satanists or something...
No it wasn't banned in the U.K., but I remember during the height of Harry Potters success there were book burnings in the US.
Harry Potter is a British book why would it be banned?
There are no Halloween or Harry Potter hating Christian groups here in the UK. All the Hardcore Christian groups are in the States.
None of what you describe is common (or uncommon!) practice in the UK.
Oh wait it says countries where it's banned. Lol then yeah no idea.
Hence why I said 'oh it says countries where it is banned'. I was kinda foggy headed and had just picked up 'banned books' and I think some UK churches and schools have banned the books.
HP books are very commonly banned from Christian schools. Idiots
Let me book my tickets... I wanna go there!
I see what you did there!
Me too, I need some new books to read.
You read my mind.
I wanna read those books !
But what will happen if the book you want is part of a pillar?
you order it from Amazon. #duh lol
You can get it at the end of the project, if you want to take the trip to germany. To the end of the documenta all of the books that are used in the Parthenon will be distributed to visitors of the exhibition.