 "Biographies" approximately 5,000 books pouring out of a building in Madrid (by Alicia Martin) The past few months there have been a slew of articles in the news about art sculptures/installations that use books as their basic building block. For your enjoyment, amusement, or horror, I’ve compiled the best of them together in this post. Some . . . → Read More: Recent art sculptures/installations that use books as their building blocks  
Remember having to make a diorama from a shoebox in elementary school? Constructing a landscape scene in a box is a childhood rite of passage. Instead of a shoebox, UK-based artist Kyle Kirkpatrick has chosen to use discarded books as the building block for his dioramas. In his hands, books become transformed into exquisite landscapes complete . . . → Read More: Kyle Kirkpatrick carves dioramas out of books  The Thinker is "connecting the dots of knowledge." How’s this for whimsical book art? a clay sculpture of Rodin’s “The Thinker” sitting upon an altered book. Tennessee-based artist Daniel Lai creates these endearing pieces where “The Thinker” is ensconced on a book which has been transformed into a playful pedestal. In one of my favorite pieces, . . . → Read More: Daniel Lai creates “The Thinker” sitting upon re-constructed books 
Predicting trends in the art/craft/design world can be as problematic as predicting next year’s best performing stock sector on Wall Street. Just look at the rise of book-related arts in the face of the cataclysmic decline of book printing and publishing. Who would have guessed? Yet another example of someone producing unique work in the book-arts arena . . . → Read More: Ragnhildur Jóhanns builds “Sculptural Poems” from books 
PBS Off Book has just released a wonderful video on one of my favorite topics – paper craft and the book arts. This short film features artists Carole Kunstadt, Matthew Reinhart (Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy), and Andrea Dezso (Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses) talking about their inspiration and art work. According . . . → Read More: 3 book artists talk about their work in a PBS Arts Off-Book video 
UK-based artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson carves out spectacular storybook scenes from old encyclopedias. Remarkably, the images in the final work are seen from their original place in the book. Korzer-Robinson creates his work by cutting into pages, exposing some of the illustrations while removing others, but never adding anything into a scene. The artist told MyModernMet, “The most challenging . . . → Read More: Alexander Korzer-Robinson excavates encyclopedias to create storybook art  Grand Larousse (2010) Oh, the things you find in old books! Artist Guy Laramee carves into these heavy tomes of knowledge revealing ancient buildings and fantastical landscapes. Explaining his work, Laramee says, “So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They . . . → Read More: Book Sculptures by Guy Laramee 
Obsession. Love. Hate. History. Money. God… can you think of a universal theme that is not found in “Moby Dick?” Although I read Melville’s classic when I was 15, each decade when I re-examine it I embark anew with Ishmael and Ahab on the cruel merciless sea. Apparently, Matt Kish, a former high school English teacher . . . → Read More: Book of the day: “Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page” by Matt Kish  "Morning Light" (detail) Who hasn’t been intrigued about the meaning of a bizarre dream? Minnesota based Sheila McNellis Asato, a certified embodied imagination coach (or dreamworker), has made a career out of studying those nocturnal dramas. A former 15-year resident of Tokyo, Asato developed the award winning Healing CollageSM process from Japanese collage therapy and Jungian . . . → Read More: Sheila Asato captures dreams in the book arts 
The telephone book is fast becoming a relic of the past but artist Kristiina Lahde has breathed life back into its spine. Carefully folding and gluing consecutive pages together to form a sort of honeybee hive, Lahde’s work reminds me of some sort of modernist tower. Aptly entitled Hive, the piece was on exhibition at the . . . → Read More: The “Hive” – folded telephone books by Kristiina Lahde |
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