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1Fogies
Mrz. 6, 2011, 11:36 am

Can one make art by mutilating books? Check this out before you say no.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/interview-with-the-book

2Phlox72
Mrz. 6, 2011, 12:03 pm

Beautiful. And wholly unexpected.

3lilithcat
Bearbeitet: Mrz. 6, 2011, 12:40 pm

Of course. I don't consider altered books "mutilation". There are so many books that are damaged beyond repair, aren't particularly valuable, are outdated (like my 35+ year old law books!).

I love Brian Dettmer's work:


and Melissa Jay Craig's.

Of course, there are more mundane uses for old books as well:

4rocketjk
Mrz. 6, 2011, 2:55 pm

I had a fellow come into my store yesterday looking for art books that he was going to cut up to make collages. I was somewhat conflicted, as he bought two particularly beautiful books for this purpose and it seems sort of a crime to me to cut up books.

On the other hand, he paid cash.

5SusieBookworm
Mrz. 7, 2011, 3:52 pm

My mom once "rescued" a huge 1820s German book on Johannes Arndt from another shopper in an antique store who wanted to buy it just so she could cut out some fraktur to use for collages. My mom was horrified.

7Osbaldistone
Aug. 8, 2012, 12:55 pm

These people are not allowed within 1,000 feet of my library!!!

Os.

8varielle
Aug. 8, 2012, 5:41 pm

It is a bit distressing. If they should use old law books or tool catalogs it would be OK.

9Osbaldistone
Bearbeitet: Aug. 8, 2012, 6:56 pm

post 8

Well, the first sculpture in post 3 appears to be an old illustrated dictionary. Perhaps common enough today, but someday, the only illustrated dictionary from that time period may be the one in the picture.

Os.

10cbellia
Aug. 17, 2012, 7:59 pm

to be sure, books are precious. But we've reached an era where there is an over abundance of them. I've seen statistics (hard to believe) that over 300,000 books are published yearly, to say nothing of the millions available on line, many downloadable. hundreds of thousands in the public domain can be read on line or downloaded free.
why not let artists find useful, whimsical, creative uses for them. I have seen library sales dump thousands of unsold books afer the sale.
We're not talking about book-burning. We're talking about artistic expression.

11Africansky1
Aug. 18, 2012, 5:08 pm

Yes an interesting economic and social problem ... But one wants to see some discernment when old books are recycled. would hate to see , say George Orwell. First edition pulped because it was old and tatty. the core iss is finding the means of transporting the unwanted book to where it may be wanted and connecting the two parties at minimal cost. I see dozens of encyclopedias being dumped and all those Readers digest condensed books or mass market . No value, not wanted, too many produced, out of date. same story with textbooks... So maybe the artists should be called in. I once saw a local artist use old school atlases for primary source of collages and the. Turn them in to art works priced at thousands.

12amysisson
Aug. 18, 2012, 9:17 pm

I tend to think that most artists who create art out of books so lovingly are also book lovers who make the distinction between something overproduced, unwanted, and unneeded, versus something more rare and valuable (even if only intellectually as opposed to monetarily).