Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Lighting Books (by Bryce Wolkowitz)

(Source: from89)

showslow:

Alicia Martin’s Amazing Book Sculptures

atavus:

Alicia Martín - Biografías, 2012

totalimmortalbeloved:

5,084,000,000 people. 5,360 pages. 3,700 years. 243 countries. 7 books. 1 shelf.

For the first time, the world’s most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.

by Mike & Maaike.

architizer:

In Ghent, a Sprawling Pop-Up Library Offers Free Literature to Go With Your Wine

(via bookuse)

teachingliteracy:

squaredproduce:

Spanish artists Luzinterruptus seized the Square with their illuminated book installation for The Light in Winter 2012. Read about their time in Melbourne at luzinterruptus.com

(via bookron)

fer1972:

A Giant Labyrinth Constructed from 250,000 Books at Southbank Centre via thisiscolossal

(Based on a fingerprint belonging to writer Jorge Luis Borges was built using 250,000 remaindered, used and new books)

Check out the complete building video!

alecshao:

Adam David Brown - The History of Art, 2007

“I carefully extracted a two-inch core sample from a recent copy of Janson’s History of Art. I then captured a digital image from every page in the core sample. The layers of the core sample can now be examined sequentially as enlarged video projections that are beamed onto the wall next to the reformatted history book.”

(Source: likeafieldmouse)

teachingliteracy:

tacticalshoyu:

Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” consists of hundreds of images cut from five decades of Life Magazines. Stretching down a long hall at the Documenta 13 art exhibition in Kassel, this amazing installation piece gives us a photographic archive of American culture from 1935 to 1985. via

deltamualpha:

Day’s worth of Flickr printouts fills Amsterdam art gallery | The Verge