Practice question · Estimate
Roughly how many months did Whiteread's House stand before it was demolished?
Estimate on a scale from 0 months (0) to 24 months (24).
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- It was a temporary work, demolished after a public dispute.
- A few months.
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Why
A few months: it stood through the winter of 1993 into 1994. The brevity is part of the work's history rather than an accident: the demolition was contested publicly, and the piece is now known almost entirely through documentation, which is the condition the tenth lesson of this unit is about.
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