The Mound of Vendôme
The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 June 2014 to 28 September 2014
The Mound of Vendôme
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The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Vendôme, mound of Vendôme, Commune de Paris, Paris, revolution, landscape, dirt, column, Napoleon, destruction, urban symbols, urban imaginary
28 February 2016
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1 streaming video file (37 min., 12 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]
David Gissen presents The Mound of Vendôme.
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1 streaming video file (37 min., 12 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]
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8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
The mound of Vendôme = Le monticule de Vendôme / a project by David Gissen.
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8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
books
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8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture, [2014]
Le monticule de Vendôme = the mound of Vendôme / un projet de David Gissen.
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8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture, [2014]
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1 item : ill. ; 61 cm. or smaller.
Le monticule de Vendôme = The mound of Vendôme : exhibition products, 2014.
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1 item : ill. ; 61 cm. or smaller.
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1 streaming video file (42 sec.) : silent, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]
L'histoire se répète = History repeats itself.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2014]