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Stella Waitzkin treated modern books as works of art, much like ancient scrolls or illuminated manuscripts. After creating molds from old leather books, she cast them in colored resin. The resulting objects can be interpreted as homages to books as vessels of wisdom and knowledge. The artist had a fraught relationship with books as things—recognizing that some provided freedom for authors to speak their minds, but also fearing that others could be misleading or untrue. Consistently returning to books as both form and subject, she underscored the extraordinary nature of this ordinary object.
Stella Waitzkin, Untitled (White Books), after 1973, cast polyester resin, wax and plaster on wood support, 16 ¼ x 14 ¼ x 9 ½ in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Museum purchase with funds from the Louise D. and Herbert S. Falk Acquisition Endowment and the Judy Proctor Acquisition Endowment, 2007. © Stella Waitzkin.
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