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[ A worn book with a brown cover and a white square in the middle is sat on by two weathered bird figures. The bird on the left is brown and the tail has been broken off. The bird on the right is black and orange and has been heavily worn. ]

Stella Waitzkin

Untitled

Artwork Type: Sculptures
Medium: Resin and found objects
Dimensions: 7 x 16 x 13 in. (19.05 x 40.64 x 33.02 cm)
Accession #: 20162507
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , Gift of The Waitzkin Memorial Library and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
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Untitled consists of individual books that Stella Waitzkin (1920–2003, American) cast from their original leather-bound versions using polyester resin. The artist had an apartment at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where cast objects lined and filled her floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, consuming the space. This emphasis on the physical space was part of Waitzkin’s notion that casting books cements the objects as repositories of knowledge. The idea of the cast book as an object of wisdom and communication would become satisfyingly tangible for the artist. Waitzkin regarded books with the same consideration as sculpture— as objects equally reflective and essentially illuminating.
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