JUDITH KARELITZ Ltd Edition KALEIDOSCOPE 1971 Karascope
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This vintage kaleidoscope is a Judith Karelitz original, number 15 from a limited edition of 100. The body of it is made from clear plexiglas (or acrylic or lucite) with a rich, red triangular form inside it. When you look through it, you see geometric shapes that glow with color and waft about in your field of vision. It's rather hypnotic. Below is an excerpt from a Smithsonian magazine article from November 1982 (It has some very interesting information on Judith Karelitz.) : The kaleidoscope, magic in a tube, is enjoying revival by Jeanne A. McDermott "When I was little, I would go to my mother's friend Marian's house and play with her antique kaleidoscope. That's how I got inspired," says Judith Karelitz (p. 103), a New York artist who works with polarized light and published an edition of 100 polarized-light kaleidoscopes in 1971. If the Van Dyke Kaleidoscope improves on tradition, the Karelitz Kaleidoscope is all 20th century. Made from transparent Plexiglas, polarizing filters, doubly-refracting materials and mineral oil, it stands at the opposite end of the spectrum. But, like Musser and O'Connor, Judith Karelitz has added an'other dimension with a sensibility that views the kaleidoscope as yet another artistic medium, like sculpture. Constructed from a clear Plexiglas cylinder with a red reflecting Plexiglas triangular
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