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Marta Minujin's Tower Of Babel

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Latin American art displays vivid colors, explosive patterns, scenes depicting real life, and much more. Marta Minujin, Argentinean artist, created Tower of Babel in 2011 in the San Martin Square, Buenos Aires to mark the Argentinean city’s naming as 2011 World Book Capital. Standing seven stories high, the tower is made of 30,000 books in languages from all around the world. Minujin’s Tower of Babel definitely is a reminder to the mythical Tower of Babel of more than 4000 years ago. Making a statement with her art, Marta Minujin creates beauty as well as bold reminders some political others cultural; making her mark in the art world as a “thinking person’s art”. Donated books from readers, libraries and more than fifty embassies around
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