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
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1851
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La statue renversée de Napoléon 1er après la chûte de la colonne Vendôme, Place Vendôme, Paris
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La statue renversée de Napoléon 1er après la chûte de la colonne Vendôme, Place Vendôme, Paris
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Mai 1871
View of the Colonne Vendôme ruins after the Paris Commune, Paris, France
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The Vendôme Column under reconstruction being assembled by workmen, Paris, France
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architecture, landscape architecture
ca. 1880s
architecture, landscape architecture