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Künsstler ist Armand Fernandez
Fünf tausend Tonnen Zement, 30 Meter hoch um 78 Panzer, Jeeps und Artillerie Geschütze herum gegossen...
In Lebanon, however, it was accepted, its very unveiling being timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Lebanese army.
The end of the 15-year Lebanese civil war in 1990 meant that the national army found itself the largely unhappy recipient of more clapped-out armour and useless field guns than any other military force in the region; it willingly gathered together the detritus of a hundred militia battles - tanks and artillery which had helped to level the centre of Beirut, some of whose ruins still stand in the baking heat below Yarze - and hoisted them into Mr Fernandez's 10-storey concrete pyramid. Each gun and tank and mobile artillery piece was welded to the interior structure amid sandbags and concrete, the still-visible armour painted in fresh camouflage paint once the concrete had set.
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Thema: Mal das andere - Denkmal für den Krieg (Gelesen 4077 mal)
