Publication

2016 - Press, Forlaget

Language

English

Word Count

40,000 words, Guess

Page Count

160 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139788232800957
  • ISBN-10823280095X
  • OCLC Control Number947795135
  • Better World Books9788232800957
  • Open LibraryOL28884697M

Classifications

  • LCCN6537.B645A67 2016
  • LCCN6537.B645 A67x 2016

Description

This book documents a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943). The 'Steilneset Memorial', opened in 2011, is a monument in Vardø, Norway, commemorating the 17th-century trial and execution of 91 women for witchcraft. The brainchild of the National Tourist Routes project in Norway (a government-sponsored initiative which aims to attract visitors to remote but exceptionally beautiful locations), the 'Steilneset Memorial' started out as a modest monument to honor the victims of the witchcraft trials, to be built on the site where the burnings originally took place. But the project, which would be Bourgeois' last major work, grew in the hands of Zumthor and Bourgeois into two distinct, haunting structures.

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