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1967

Alumnus Paul Thek constructs a wax cast of his own body inside the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Paul Thek "Untitled" from the series "Technological Reliquaries", 1966, wax, paint, polymer resin, nylon monofilament, wire, plaster, plywood, melamine laminate, rhodium-plated bronze, and acrylic, 14 × 15 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.