{"id":2101,"date":"2017-05-01T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:46:24","slug":"the-parthenon-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/the-parthenon-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parthenon of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/csm_Minujin-partenon-750-475_b8e47363f6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2102\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/csm_Minujin-partenon-750-475_b8e47363f6-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/csm_Minujin-partenon-750-475_b8e47363f6-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/csm_Minujin-partenon-750-475_b8e47363f6.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;With the rise of Far Right candidates in Europe and in America, along with creeping dictatorship in Turkey and authoritarianism in the Philippines, the idea of democracy and freedom of speech feels under threat more than ever. While we don\u2019t talk about political solutions here on Open Culture, we do believe in the power of art to illuminate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Argentine artist Marta Minuj\u00edn is creating a large-scale artwork called <a href=\"http:\/\/u-in-u.com\/documenta\/2017\/parthenon-of-books\/\"><em>The Parthenon of Books<\/em><\/a> that will be constructed on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Germany, and will be constructed from as many as 100,000 banned books from all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/04\/argentine-artist-is-creating-a-parthenon-made-of-100000-banned-books.html\">OpenCulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With the rise of Far Right candidates in Europe and in America, along with creeping dictatorship in Turkey and authoritarianism in the Philippines, the idea of democracy and freedom of speech feels under threat more than ever. While we don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/the-parthenon-of-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/05\/csm_Minujin-partenon-750-475_b8e47363f6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}