Entries Tagged as 'books as art'
If you like to flip through The Unbound Book (my book art photoblog), then I have treat for you. There’s a photoblog over on Tumblr that records and explains scanning errors from the Google Books project. It’s called The Art of Google Books.
You can see one example at right. Someone inadvertently hit the scan button while they were flipping the page.
I’ve just now found the blog, but it’s been around since April of last year. It now has 15 thousand followers, so I wonder how I managed to miss it.
The Art of Google Books
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This might be the last bookstore in Hoboken. An independent on the Washington Street main strip. And this is what was in its main window this morning:
Even though I’m no longer a friend of printed books, it still bothers me to see that being done to them. At some point in the future, some eejit will buy one of those and a discussion like this will take place:
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This photo is one of a series of works by Nina Katchadourian. The idea is to sort through someone’s library and put together a brief statement or story based on the book titles.
via The Unbound Book
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This piece was installed in the basement of a building which had been used as a public library from 1888 until the 1960s.
via The Unbound Book blog
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A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a set of bookmarks that I got from Google. Google sent them out to everyone who bought a Google Book. It was a clever little marketing idea that I adore.
This week I found another someone else using bookmarks to promote their digital magazine service. the company is called MagAppZine. Check’em out.
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This artist thoughtfully destroys books to create a piece. The way she happened upon this style is rather interesting:
I realized I owned many books that were no longer of use to me, or for that matter, anyone else. Would I ever need “Windows 95?” After soaking it in the bathtub for a few hours, it had a new shape and purpose. Half Price Books became a regular haunt, and an abandoned house gave me a set of outdated reference books, complete with mold and neglect. Each book tells me how to begin according to its size, type of paper, and sometimes contents.
There are a couple more pieces after the break, and as always, you can find more artist who work with books in the Books As Art page here on TDR.
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This is a Scottish artist who works with a scalpel instead of a brush or a pen, creating constructions that transform found ephemera, such as books, music scores, maps, newspapers, currency and photographs.
This is one of the less satisfying finds. With most artists you can find high resolution images that display the work at its best. For Georgia, we just have these catalog photos.
There are a couple larger ones after the break.
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Susan Porteous is a book artist whose work explores both sculptural and traditionally bound books that investigate issues of form, content, word, and image, using both handmade and commercial production methods.
As always, you can find the work of other artists in the Books as Art page on the blog.
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Alicia Martin makes installation pieces from large quantities of books. The one above is one of her smaller works; check out the one below. You can find more of her work on Crooked Brain.
I found this without credit on a Tumblr blog. Does anyone know who’s work this is? I’d like to see more.
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Does anyone know who made this? I’d like to credit the source.
Thanks.
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If you like to flip through The Unbound Book (my book art photoblog), then I have treat for you. There’s a photoblog over on Tumblr that records and explains scanning errors from the Google Books project. It’s called The Art of Google Books.
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