Palace of Culture and Science

Architecture · 1952–1955 · Warsaw · Europe

A Soviet 'gift' to Poland: a Moscow-style tower dressed in Polish Renaissance parapets

Author: Lev Rudnev
Style: Socialist realism — Life not as it is but as it should become under socialism — legible and heroic
Century: 20th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

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1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
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