More of his book sculptures at the link. What he does with them is extraordinary, though I did squirm a little at the thought of old books getting cutting apart, however delicately.
It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.
- Richard Wilbur, "The Writer"
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Book sculptures
Click on the image to find out more about Brian Dettmer (the "Book Surgeon"), an artist who takes out-of-date books and crafts them into something like this, using only the illustrations and text that already exist in the book:

More of his book sculptures at the link. What he does with them is extraordinary, though I did squirm a little at the thought of old books getting cutting apart, however delicately.
More of his book sculptures at the link. What he does with them is extraordinary, though I did squirm a little at the thought of old books getting cutting apart, however delicately.
Labels:
art,
books,
illustrations