History & Function: UT exhibit ‘Judaica’ reflects former architect’s faith, family
Friday, August 8th, 2008
“A man covered by a Jewish prayer shawl stands before a shtender, or lectern, in a sculpture by Knoxville artist Arnold Schwarzbart. But look again at the pit-fired clay work of deep browns scorched with grays. No form stands under the shawl that itself makes a ghostlike shape. The man is gone. “He is ashes,” says Schwarzbart. “This is a comment on what the Holocaust did.”
Read http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/26/ut-exhibit-judaica-reflects/ for the rest of the story by Amy McRary, Knoxville News Sentinel