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Elizabeth
(Hardcover)
Nayeli L. Riano, M Earl Smith
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The famous Lion Monument in Lucerne, located in a park in the heart
of the city, commemorates the Swiss Guards in the service of the
French King Louis XVI who fell in the storming of the Tuileries
Palace in Paris on August 10, 1792. The monument, hewn directly
into the rockface according to a design by the Danish sculptor
Bertel Thorvaldsen, was inaugurated on August 10, 1821. Together
with the nearby Glacier Garden, it is today one of the Swiss
city’s major tourist attractions. To mark the memorial’s
bicentenary, the Kunsthalle Lucerne launched the Lion Monument 21
program of exhibitions, performances, podiums, and
interdisciplinary events. Between 2017 and 2021, they considered
the monument from an artistic standpoint. The art projects
demonstrated a wide range of artistic stances and related the
monument to a variety of themes. This book documents the entire
project through some 400 images, texts, and conversations. It also
constitutes a socially committed reference book for the artistic
contextualisation of monuments, which records and reflects on the
insights of the Lion Monument 21 project. Text in English and
German.
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