Abstract
Barnett Newman's monumental architectural sculpture Broken Obelisk (fig. 1) would seem at first to be unrelated to the principal history of his generation, that is, World War II with its millions of dead. After all, the sculpture was designed for no particular site in 1963–64 and fabricated in 1967 in an edition of three. It was dedicated to Martin Luther King after his assassination, and its six thousand pounds of Cor-Ten steel more than twenty-five feet high do not immediately suggest the war.
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