The Shtender

Year: 2008
Materials: Pit fired clay

A man covered by a Jewish prayer shawl stands before a shtender, or lectern. 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."

Amy McRary, Knoxville News Sentinel, July 2008

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Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. See also The Legacy Project.