Book art

Lately TPP has had some travails about book art, his, and their subpar resolution, which will take some effort to correct.  Ah, well.  So it was with some amusement that this article on "book art" was noticed.  Here's another artist doing something whimsically creative with old books, in this case Lisa Occhipinti.  Some time back TPP posted a blog showing book art by Brian Dettmer.  And not too long ago TPP noticed another book "carver", an artist named Guy Laramee.  One hopes that his carving of Petra (?) is from an encyclopedia of archeology or ancient history either of which would be appropriate.  Now if only TPP can publish a book so as to carve the unsold copies.   

Very very funky books

Here's some sculpture that may give the bibliophiles among you a strange feeling.  On one hand, a book, rather than being destroyed, is utterly transformed into a fascinating object that is strangely compelling.  Here's an example, constructed from 3 books, and a link to see more.  The artist, Brian Dettmer, literally carves out the pages leaving text and images to form these very sculptural constructions that basically transform a 2-dimensional medium into something 3-dimensional.  This fellow must have some pretty sharp and pretty fine cutting tools.  Wonder if he's done any botanicals?  HT to Blue Collar Atheist.