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Preferred term

Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner  

Synonym(s)

  • TO THE UNKNOWN POLITICAL PRISONER
  • UNKNOWN POLITICAL PRISONER

Note

  • Generic artist: Butler, Reg, 1913-1981 [NY, MOMA]
  • Generic artist: Butler, Reg, 1913-1981 [Tate Gallery]
  • Generic artist: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
  • Generic artist: Lippold, Richard, b.1915
  • Generic artist: Roszak, Theodore, 1907-1981
  • Generic location: London (GBR), Tate Gallery
  • Generic location: New York (NY, USA), Museum of Modern Art
  • Generic medium: commemorative monument; models, sketches; 1951-57
  • Generic medium: sculpture, 1952
  • Generic medium: sculpture; 1952
  • Generic medium: sculpture (model for monument), 1951-53
  • Generic note: only projects extant; Tate Gallery owns Reg Butler's "Working Model for...", & has on loan many of his maquettes

Scope note

  • intended for Berlin; never realized; design competition (1952-53) sponsored by Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; project for the monument abandoned 1960; commissioned by John Hay Whitney

Notation

  • 256837

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-FTD7PKCC-M

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