An edition of Marta Minujín (2018)

Marta Minujín

el partenón de libros prohibidos = the parthenon of forbidden books : Documenta 14, Kassel

Marta Minujín
Marta Minujin, Alvaro Rufiner, ...
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An edition of Marta Minujín (2018)

Marta Minujín

el partenón de libros prohibidos = the parthenon of forbidden books : Documenta 14, Kassel

Documents the major installation that Marta Minujín created for documenta 14. Initially constructed in 1983 by Minujín from copies of books banned by the military dictatorship in her native Argentina, this new version is the largest work in documnta's history, a full-scale model of the Parthenon, that stands outside the main Documenta buildings on Friedrichsplatz, Kassel, Germany. According to the artist, the form of the Parthenon was chosen because it symbolizes "the aesthetic and political ideals of the first democracy of the world". Its meaning also extends to the place, because it is the Friedrichsplatz, where 200 books were burned in 1933 during the campaign led by Hitler university students called "Action against the anti-German spirit." This intervention is the second version of an installation entitled El Partenón de libros, set up in Argentina in 1983 after the fall of the civic-military dictatorship of the self-styled "Process of National Reorganization". The installation was intended to celebrate the new intellectual and democratic freedom by presenting the same books that had been banned by the dictatorship. The books were redistributed to the the public and wiith this action, the artist seeks to express the ephemeral status of this work. The work of Minujín has the same dimensions as the Parthenon of Athens. The books that cover it were donated by people and publishers from different parts of the world. The artist was transported in an elevator to the top of the book temple, where she posted a copy of Mrs. Stone's Roman Spring, by the American writer Tennessee Williams.

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Publisher
ÁXP
Language
Spanish
Pages
181

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Table of Contents

Entrevistas = Interviews
Correo = Mail
Cronología de arte efímero = Chronology of ephemeral art
Pre historia, Buenos Aires 1983 = Pre history, Buenos Aires 1983
Atenas, Grecia, 2017
Kassel, Alemania, 2017
Construcción = Building
Obra = Work
Deconstrucción = Deconstruction
Prensa = Press
Libros prohibidos, fragmento = Forbidden books, fragment.

Edition Notes

On occasion of an exhibition held as part of Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany, September 2017.

Parallel texts in Spanish and English; extracts of correspondence in English.

Published in
Buenos Aires]
Other Titles
Partenón de libros prohibidos, Parthenon of forbidden books

Classifications

Library of Congress
NX531.Z9 M552 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
181 pages
Number of pages
181

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44425467M
ISBN 10
9874289805
ISBN 13
9789874289803
OCLC/WorldCat
1101207919

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