It's a replica of Greek temple the Parthenon, but instead of marble this installation is made from 100,000 banned books. The creation, called 'The Parthenon of Books', is the centre piece of this year's Documenta 14 exhibition in German city Kassel. Created by conceptual artist Marta Minujín, its aim is to stir debate around censorship.It has also been installed at the same site where Nazis burned books by Jewish or Marxist writers in 1933. The 170 titles that form the building include the Bible, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.Built with the same dimensions of the real-life Parthenon, metal grills were first installed and then the books, which were covered in plastic, were wedged into place by volunteers.
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