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Author:

Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010.

Title:

Louise Bourgeois, Peter Zumthor : Steilneset Memorial : the possessed, the damned and the beloved : to the victims of the Finnmark witchcraft trials / [text by Svein R©ınning ... [et al.]].

Edition:

2. utg. = 2nd ed.

Publisher:

Forlaget Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

135 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Bourgeois, Louise,--1911-2010.
Zumthor, Peter.
Memorials--Vard©ı.--Vard©ı.
Installations (Art)--Vard©ı.--Vard©ı.
Witchcraft--Finnmark fylke--Finnmark fylke--History--17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft)--Finnmark fylke--Finnmark fylke--History--17th century.

Other Authors:

Zumthor, Peter.
R©ınning, Svein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

This book documents a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the architect Peter Zumthor (born 1973). The 'Steilneset Memorial', opened in 2011, is a monument in Vard©ı, 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.

ISBN:

823280095X
9788232800957

OCLC:

(OCoLC)947795135

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)