Parthenon of Books
In 1983, Argentine performance/installation artist Marta Minujin and her assistants spent 17 days in a public park building a full-scale model of the Greek Parthenon.
Made entirely of books wrapped in plastic and displayed on a scaffold, The Parthenon of Books/Homage to Democracy represented the books that had been banned in Argentina for their controversial content by its military rulers. The country had just held its first democratic election in a decade. The art stood for about three weeks, where upon the public was allowed to dismantle it and keep the books.
You can read The New York Times article about Marta and other Latin American artists here.