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degree in art from Southern
Illinois University and his mas-
ter's in fine art from the
University of Chicago, tried
journalism. He was working as
an editor at the University of
Chicago when he won a
National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship and changed the
direction of his career.
His transition from more
general drawing and painting
to working with books
occurred through a project of
bound suites of drawings.
"I spent a long period of
time turning books into sculp-
ture in various literal ways —
either by tearing pages out of
them to make them into sculp-
tural objects individually or by
stacking thousands of them to
make very large structures,"
Spector explains.
"The shift from that sort of
physical engagement with the
books to photographs as represen-
-tations of the books is important
to me.
Above: Buzz Spector: "Freeze Freud,"
Polaroid photographs, 2001, incorporates the
complete works of Sigmund Freud, which are
inserted in twin blocks of ice.
Books As Art
Top: Buzz Spector: 'My Fiction," Polaroid
photographs, 2001, features all the novels and
short story anthologies in Spector's collection.
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Spector's book projects, completed
over 20 years, can emanate from
his own initiatives or from proposed
commissions.
A Passage, a narrative about going to
Hebrew school, is a 360-page hard-
cover book with the same text on
every page. Designed to be torn sys-
tematically, each page offers innovative
views of the printed words.
Beautiful Scenes: Selections from the
Cranbrook Archives was an installation of
historic materials put together at the
invitation of the curator at the
Cranbrook Art Museum in 1998. It was
planned as an environmental tableau.
Unpacking My Library, completed in
1994, consisted of a single-shelf
arrangement of Spector's books in
order of the height of the spine, from
the tallest to the shortest.
Part of his growing collection is a
section of scholarly and critical books
dealing with Jewish history and the
Holocaust.
Spreading The Word
Spector's writing about art expanded
after he co-founded WhiteWalls, a
magazine of articles by artists. He has
written on topics in contemporary art
and culture for professional publica-
tions, such as American Craft,
Arorum, Art Issues and Dialogue, and
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he has developed essays for other
artists' catalogues.
Spector, who uses his childhood nick-
name because that's what people in his
creative circle call him, began his teach-
ing with seminars and part-time work in
Chicago, where he was hired to cover
the types of projects he was creating. He
has enjoyed being a mentor for students.
"The kind of attention that readers
pay to books is a wonderful thing to
bring to the experience of looking at
an artwork," Spector says.
"I feel that when I photograph my
books, the formal qualities — lighting,
colors, richness of tone and texture —
actually bring to the eye of the viewer
a rumination on pleasure and comfort
alongside the recollection of what a
particular book might be about." ❑
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