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Reading112 Sculpture

Collection of photographic images of works of art: the world of books and reading<br>(You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading themu2026

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Reading112 Sculpture

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  1. 112 Reading

  2. Nils Holgersson in Karlskrona by Ralf Borselius The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson with the wild geese (Selma Lagerlöf)

  3. Nils Holgersson by Ralf Borselius The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson with the wild geese (Selma Lagerlöf)

  4. Nils Holgersson by Ralf Borselius

  5. Selma Lagerlöf by Jonas Högström, Nordkap, Landskrona. Sweden

  6. William Shakespeare in Central Park, New York

  7. William Shakespeare in Central Park, New York

  8. Centrale bibliotheek Zwolle Nederland Crookesmoor, Sheffield, England Upperthorpe Library

  9. Crookesmoor, Sheffield, England Upperthorpe Library

  10. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

  11. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island

  12. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) Bronze and Ivory statue of woman reading a book

  13. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) Bronze and Ivory statue of woman reading a book

  14. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) bronze chryséléphantine statue of woman reading a book

  15. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) bronze chryséléphantine statue of woman reading a book

  16. Angel of Frankfurt by Rosemarie Trockel, 1994 Memorial to the persecution of homosexuals

  17. Angel of Frankfurt by Rosemarie Trockel, 1994

  18. Frankfurt Book Burning Memorial in Römerberg Square

  19. Frankfurt Book Burning Memorial in Römerberg Square On 10 May 1933, a large book burning took place on this square. Student burned books which showed a different opinion than the one from the Nazis

  20. La liseuse (The Reader), by Cyril de la Patellière in Gap, France

  21. La liseuse (The Reader), by Cyril de la Patellière in Gap, France

  22. La liseuse (The Reader), by Cyril de la Patellière in Gap, France

  23. La liseuse (The Reader), by Cyril de la Patellière in Gap, France

  24. World’s first ’Statue of Freedom of Press’ in Nagpur, India artist Kiran Adate

  25. Firenze Luca della Robbia Disputation' (aka 'Plato & Aristotle'), 14th century Opera del Duomo Jean Michel Folon (Belgian, 1934 - 2005) Je me souviens (I remember) Il giardino delle rose, Florence

  26. Jean Michel Folon (Belgian, 1934 - 2005) , Je me souviens (I remember) Il giardino delle rose, Florence

  27. Juneteenth Memorial monument George Washington Carver Museum Austin Texas

  28. The entire scene of the Juneteenth memorial statues at the George Washington Carver Museum in East Austin

  29. Leipzig  German Books and Manuscripts Museum of the German National Library

  30. Madrid. Memorial for the victims of March 11 2004 Fam Studio, 2007

  31. Memorial for the victims of March 11 2004 and one of the entrances of the Atocha railway station in Madrid (Spain). Part of the extension projected by architect Rafael Moneo (born 1937) built between 1985 and 1992

  32. One of the entrances of the Atocha railway station in Madrid (Spain) and the Memorial for the victims of March 11 2004

  33. Memorial for the victims of March 11 2004 in Madrid (Spain)

  34. The cylindrical glass memorial looks like a big lamp, about 11 metres tall, 8 metres in diameter and weighing 160 tons. The outside of the memorial is made of 12 thousand blocks of glass

  35. The "representation space": a dark room with blue walls barely lit up by the rays of light that come in through a small slit in the ceiling

  36. Messages of solidarity written by citizens in memory of the victims and for their families are projected on the walls inside the memorial at different times of day, depending on the light conditions

  37. The transparency of the glass allows visitors to see people moving about in Atocha station. This empty, soundless space is the most intimate, meditative, evocative heart of the memorial

  38. What makes this project so unusual is its capability of acting as a memorial not only with its iconic cylindrical architecture, but with the atmosphere it manages to create, speaking the language of transparency, silence, meditation and intimacy

  39. Exactly three years after the terrorist attack that caused 191 tragic deaths at Atocha station, Madrid has inaugurated a memorial designed by Studio FAM (Fascinante Aroma a Manzana; the name means Fascinating Smell of Apple)

  40. Tribute to the commercial agent, or Viajante 1998 Estación Puerta de Atocha, Madrid

  41. Tribute to the commercial agent, or Viajante 1998 Estación Puerta de Atocha, Madrid by Francisco López Hernández  (Spanish, 1932-) 

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