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, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'art'
Books as Art: Georgia Russell
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
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 [...]
Books as Art: Susan Porteous
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
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.
Books as Art: Alicia Martin
March 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · books as art
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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Books as Art: Maria Fischer
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
This particular piece has made the rounds of the blogs over the past few days, so you might have seen it already. But most of the blogs I read got it wrong. Most of the descriptions referred to this as an example of analog hyperlinking, but that’s not really what Maria Fischer was trying to [...]
Books as Art: Brian Dettmer
February 10th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
Brian Dettmer is known as the book surgeon, and if you spend a few minutes studying his work you’ll understand why. Brian Dettmer (website) Flickr <- open only if you have nothing else to do today As always, you can click on the images and see them full sized. Also, if you’d like to see [...]
Books as Art: Thomas Allen
February 7th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
Thomas Allen has been working on a series of posed cut outs based on the covers of pulp novels. I found a gallery containing of 42 of his pieces. The photography is lacking, but the scenes he’s created are fascinating. There are 2 more shots after the break. Foley Gallery
Books as Art: an update
February 5th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
I was looking through the activity on my RSS feed and I noticed that this series of posts has been very popular. I’m pleased; I post the pictures because I like them and I’m glad you do, too. If you’ve only seen 1 or 2 posts from the series then you might want to check [...]
Books as Art: Isaac Salazar
January 29th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
You might have seen this picture before (or one like it). I’ve been seeing them for about 6 or 7 months now, but it was only last week that I stumbled across the artist. This is the work of Isaac Salazar, a accountant living in the southwestern US. You can find more pictures on his [...]
Books as Art: Xavier Antin
January 25th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
This picture shows an installation piece by Xavier Antin, a French Artist. In this piece he uses printing technology that spans a century to make a book. As he describes it: A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A [...]
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