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Pompey Column, Alexandria, 325 B.C.
[Photo: Felix Bonfils]



Jupitersäule, Mainz
50 C.E..



Colonna di Foca, Foro Romano
608 C.E. [Photo 1895]

 

 

 


   



Iron Pillar, Qutub Minar
Delhi, 400 C.E.



Ashokan Pillar, Lumbini
      

 

 


           

Kopjafa (wooden grave-posts). Hungary, Slovakia, and Transylania (Romania); since 16th century.




Constantin Brancusi:
Colonne de l'Infini, 1918



Constantin Brancusi:
Colonne de la reconnaissance sans fin (Târgu Jiu Memorial), 1937/1938



Brancusi's studio

                



Richard Pettibone:

"Endless Column" copies,

ca. 2000




Carl Andre:
Last Ladder, 1959



Carl Andre's studio, 1959.
[Photo: Holly Frampton]



Carl Andre:
Maple and Plastic Exercise, 1959


Carl Andre: Timber
Spindle Exercise
, 1964




herman de vries:
zonder titel, 1960



herman de vries:
zonder titel, 1961



Mathias Goeritz:
Untitled, 1969




herman de vries:
paal, 1961



Robert Morris:
Column, 1961



Walter de Maria:
2 x 4 Box, 1961




Anne Truitt:
Pith, 1969



Anne Truitt:
Sunflower, 1971



Anne Truitt:
Twilight Fold, 1971

 

 

 

 

 



Compiled by Remko Scha – October, 2010 / June, 2012