Carolina QuotesMy huge monument to the bombing of Rotterdam [in 1940, by the German aircraft], for instance, was the third and final version of this figure. Once the model had been accepted in principle and the scale agreed on, I began working on a new version of it, conceiving it to a great extent in terms of the effects of the changes of lighting in which such a monument would been seen in the open air. [c. 1960]
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Source
the name of the monument is ('Destroyed City', 1953), in Dutch language: in Dutch: 'De verwoeste Stad'] — p. 155
- work
- Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960
- year
- 1953
- locator
- p. 155
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