He often designs toys and products for children as a way to expose the mechanisms of education, upbringing, and cultural conditioning, the most famous of which is
a concentration camp built out of Legos.
Not exact matches
The late Pope John Paul II has been described as the inspiration for a possible compromise to the dispute over the proposed Islamic center and mosque in the World Trade Center vicinity - that it be withdrawn and
built elsewhere, much as the late pontiff had canceled plans for a convent near the Auschwitz
concentration camp.
I know, lets just
build bigger
concentration camps..
Witness the ceremony at the dedication of the Holocaust Museum in Washington when soil was mixed from the sites of thirty - nine Nazi
concentration camps and placed within the base of the eternal flame burning in that
building.
This jerk is advocating
building concentration camps to imprison gays and lesbians.
Interior scenes of neoclassic National Socialist architecture arc a frequent subject for Kiefer, but in this work he depicts the crudely
built interior of an attic that looks much like the barracks of a
concentration camp.
This short educational film
builds on the England football squad's historic 2012 visit to the site of the Nazi
concentration and death
camp Auschwi...
A poster at SJHA quotes the noted Holocaust survivor, Haim Ginott, in which he reflects that the
concentration camps» gas chambers were «
built by learned engineers»....
And I think of Trude Heller's story and her «series of miracles»: the miracle that she escaped Vienna before the Nazis
built concentration camps for women; the miracle that united her with her husband, Max; and the miracle that brought them to my city.
Sections of his quasi-documentary film «Spielberg's List» (2003) were set within a reconstructed Nazi
concentration camp originally created for «Schindler's List» and
built directly beside the ruins of a real
concentration camp.
References to other histories emerge: a small
building suggesting a
concentration camp, photos she took while walking through a German mine field from WWII.
Hosted in a
building of symbolic historical charge — a former 1928 Trade Fair Palace which in 1939 — 1941 served as an assembly point for Jews before their deportation to the
concentration camp in Terezín — it works as a site - specific parable, a form of (public) speech, carrying a transgressive power of cathartic experience, but also a rhetoric of failure, paradox and resignation...
The poet Stephen Spender has characterized the figures in his paintings as «people who seem burdened with perhaps terrible experience... like refugees conscious of
concentration camps» and he has suggested that Auerbach's fascination with
building sites reflects the destruction he saw around him in his childhood.
A new installation, Zoo / T (2007), being created especially for the courtyard at IMMA, reproduces a scaled - down version of a zoo
built in 1943 in the ground of the Treblinka
concentration camp.