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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines a globally valid understanding of human dignity. Yet, “violations of human rights seem to be like images on large billboards: people only see them from the other side of the road”. (Juli Zeh). El Dorado, legendary land of gold in South America, provides the metaphor and title for this catalogue, which examines the promise of global recognition and implementation of human rights, a promise that is far from being kept. The power of the work of the artists gathered here raises awareness of crises, and, since they illustrate these conflicts or visualise violations of human rights, the drawings, photographs, video pieces, sculptures and installations also work on an abstract level.
From the bestselling author of Born to Be Hanged comes a transporting account of the obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan England's political intrigues and the rival Spanish conquistadors vying for El Dorado's treasure.
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Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado , H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story o
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world''s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners,
At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adven
