Title: Art destruction - Wikipedia
Headings: Art destruction
Art destruction
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Natural destruction
Accidental destruction
Intentional destruction
Of artwork designed to be destroyed
Of artwork not designed to be destroyed
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Content: Other works of art were destroyed in the Blitz, in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and throughout Southeast Asia. Most of the artwork of Abdul Ghafoor Breshna, one of Afghanistan 's most talented artists, was lost or destroyed in the many years of war which ravaged Afghanistan during the decades after the artist's death in 1974. Artworks destroyed in the September 11 attacks in the United States included a painted wood relief by Louise Nevelson, a painting from Roy Lichtenstein 's Entablature series and a Joan Miró tapestry. The total value of artwork lost in the September 11 attacks is said to have been in excess of $100 million
Corridart was a six-kilometer exhibit of artworks in Montreal, intended to be part of the arts and cultural component of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Mayor Jean Drapeau, who deemed the artworks ugly, had them torn down two days before the Olympic games began. In 1956, a vandal threw acid at the Louvre museum's Mona Lisa, damaging it. In 1982, Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV was attacked days before it would be presented to the public
In 1986, the painting Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was attacked with a knife
In 2017, a terror suspect attacked guards of the Louvre with machetes and was found carrying "bombs of aerosol paint" intended to "disfigure the masterpieces of the [Louvre] museum. " See also
Art intervention
Art vandalism
Digital preservation
Iconoclasm
List of World Heritage in Danger
Lost artworks
List of destroyed heritage
Destruction of Art in Afghanistan
Hatra#Destruction by ISIL
Nimrud#Demolition by ISIL
Slighting
List of films featuring the destruction of art and cultural heritage
References
^ "Art world reels as losses mount". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 March 2014.