all of these books have in common?
and why are they are they all,
in all there are 170 titles that have been historically
banned worldwide by various institutions, and using donated copies have been made in to The Parthenon of Books, a scaffold replica of the famous Greek temple clad in
100,000 copies of banned books, the piece is currently on view in Kassel,
Germany as part of a 100-day art exhibition called Documenta 14,
South American conceptual artist Marta Minujín worked with students from Kassel University to
identify 170 titles that have been historically banned, and then sought help from the public to obtain donated copies, the books were then wrapped in a protective plastic coating to shield them from
the elements, The Parthenon of Books will be on view through mid-September
and you can see more photos at the Instagram hashtag #parthenonofbooks, as an aside I could not find a list of the 170 banned books in the article, but here is a list of 46 historically banned books from the American Library Association, how many have you read or seen a film that was made from one of the books?
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
of course common sense has prevailed and as far as I know none of the above are now banned, but at some point in history they all were!
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