Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

msnbc:

Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died at age 83.

The Brooklyn-born author lost many family members in the Holocaust and spent time in bed with health problems as a child. After seeing the Disney movie “Fantasia” at the age of 12, he resolved to become an illustrator.

Image:  Ls  /  AP file

Sendak on death: “I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.”

visualgraphic:

Work for money, Design for love

artistandstudio:

Photo-booth portraits of Francis Bacon, George Dyer, and David Plante in Aix-en-Provence, mounted inside cover of book, 1966–1967. The Estate of Francis Bacon, courtesy Faggionato Fine Arts, London, and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

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austinkleon:

Steal Like An Artist, a book by Austin Kleon

My new book is out in bookstores today and online:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Powell’s
• IndieBound
• iBooks

If you buy it before midnight, you can enter to win a framed Newspaper Blackout print from 20x200. Details here.

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bookspaperscissors:

Wow love this Tumblr, “solely devoted to pictures of art studios, art supplies, art in progress and artists at work”, art-inprogress

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Emilio Chapela

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Sarah Bodman The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?)

As a Contemporary Art student you are forever asked why you do what you do, whether it’s painting, sculpture, video art, photography or even book art. The simple reason why I work with books is because I want to. Not exactly profound I know but I love what I do, so I do it.

I’ve said before that I think that I like working with books because I’ve been such an avid reader since childhood. To this day it’s very rare for me not to be reading some form of book and I believe I find some comfort in making them myself, it’s a way of bringing together a few of my interests.

I also find myself envious of those who can write. I have never been as good with words as I (hope) I am at working visually. Even before I started seriously working within book art I had a tendency to use text and quotes in my drawings, as if I was trying to show the affect other people’s words had on me. A wise man - Stephen Paul, artist and director Giacobetti Paul, Brooklyn, NY - once told me that one day I would wake up and be able to write as well as I wish to but that these things take time and experience. I certainly hope he’s right!

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nevver:

Wasted Rita

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