Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Humors Series by Amanda Thackray

Stack of cast glass books

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Sculptures by Anselm Kiefer

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Intricate Book Carvings by Nino Orlandi!

Beeswax Book Sculpture by Markus Fiedler 

What at first look like delicate works of carved porcelain are actually thousands of layers of soft white paper, carved into busts, skulls, and human forms by Beijing artist Li Hongbo. A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape. He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures. Hongbo recently had a solo show at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Australia who made the videos above, and you can see much more of his work on their website.

(Source: thisiscolossal.com)

Book Sculptures (by Jessica Drenk)

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Anselm Kiefer * [+]

Zweistromland / Land of Two Rivers

installation, mixed media, 1985-1989

[…] Throughout his career Kiefer was a maker of books, one-of-a-kind works like medieval manuscripts. His most monumental expression of this interest is “The High Priestess/Zweistromland/Land of Two Rivers”. This sculpture consists of two bookcases (labeled after the rivers Tigris and Euphrates) containing about two hundred lead books, all on a superhuman scale. Some of the books were blank; others contained such things as obscure photographs of clouds or dried peas. It was a many layered work dealing with the artifacts of knowledge. […] *

Writer’s Block by Jonathan Callan

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by ragnhildur jóhanns

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The Last Chapter by Sandra Arteaga