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Index
Cemetery
Hall. Tor
Memorial
Tablets
Sale
e Tabacchi
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst. Canal Gardens
Comenius
Garden
Nat. Reserve Schöneberg
Russian Church
R.
Luxemburg Memorial
Cadillacs
in Concrete
Schildhorn
Column
Heerstraße
Cemetery
Kleist's
Grave
Mori-Ogai
Memorial
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At Rathenauplatz, Wolf Vostell
with his monument of two Cadillacs set in concrete for
the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin, has created the most controversial sculpture of all those which in the 80’s turned the Kurfürstendamm into a “boulevard of
sculpture.” The title “2 Cadillacs in the form of the naked Maja”, a reference to the famous Goya
painting, gives one an idea of the degree of mockery and self-parody that we are subjected to. The art
work, which plays in many ways with German and American identification, was erected in 1987 and passes comment at the west end of the Kurfürstendamm on the torrent of metal branching off to the city motorway and leading from it back into the
boulevard. The sculpture set civil rights groups and associations against each other as they tried hard to get it taken down. Hardly fifteen years after it was first
exhibited, the work maintains its intense critical power. Moreover, the controversy that it has provoked has made it a significant record of contemporary
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