DATE: March 26, 2008 10:28:26 PST
"Alphabeta Cube," 1972
© Fred Bassetti

Wood and bronze, 8' h. Art allowance from Wilson Library, Phase II construction funds. Architect for the new addition to Wilson Library, Bassetti also decided to create a sculpture dealing with language. He was inspired by an ad from the American Public Library Association which used the letters of the alphabet to describe a library's functions. Focusing on the resources of a library and the structural nature of language itself, he formed a cube of 12 beams around a bronze polygon imprinted with letters of the alphabet, numbers, and mathematical symbols of pi and infinity.
