Untitled (History)
WHITEREAD, Rachel
© Rachel Whiteread/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Books are repositories of our shared culture. This work was made by casting the space around a set of bookshelves. The books themselves are absent, only their ghostly traces remain. Whiteread has created a series of these sculptures that act as a form of memorial. Untitled (History) suggests how easily collective memory can be lost.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 23288
Creation/Production
WHITEREAD, Rachel
Date: 2002
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, DW, 10/2002
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund and The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height (cm): 129
Width (cm): 70
Depth (cm): 26
Height (in): 50
Width (in): 27
Depth (in): 10
Techniques
cast
forming
Applied Art
Material
plaster
polystyrene
steel
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