Amazing Sculptural Book Art


	Amazing Sculptural Book Art
JohnWaterman
5-28-2009 11:29 AM
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5-28-2009 10:03 PM
Richclips777
Absolutely incredible. Talk about reading between the lines! What vision! Recycling at its best!
Great clip JW!
5-29-2009 8:34 AM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
Interesting!
Really!
But I think about the needed free space to keep only one of them out of the dust ... without warehousing all the books to read at the attic in the dust...
And this in times of depression ...
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/22a01e40-921b-46f2-ba59-779be60da218/AC662F65-89B4-419F-8FAA-5CE80814BEBD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html" href="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.designswan.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P><STRONG>Brian Dettmer</STRONG> is an American artist who takes old books and turns them into beautiful works of art by cutting away selected parts to reveal layered images and text. I know when I was a child, I was told tons of times never defacing books. But I have to say, I was really impressed by this set of work. That is incredibly amazing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>1. This one is made by sticking several books together…New Books of Knowledge, 2009.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/E0E1BAAA-A3D8-445F-86D3-F3AAB68A3B95" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>2. Standard Circle, 2009. Altered set of encyclopedias</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/DB6EDB42-EB2A-4C0E-9118-BF95A8726461" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>3. Science in the Twentieth Century, 2009.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/6FB8D876-8368-4BA0-9061-ACC31789341D" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>4.The Birge Colonial Book.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/8E36D3E0-832B-4764-87EE-F5273BF78606" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>5. World Science, 2009.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/85B40676-47FC-4EA2-B9A8-13C0D98D31B4" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>6. The Ordeal of Civilization, 2007.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/740596D0-FDC6-48E4-A29D-4FFA43F3477B" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>7. World Books, 2009 and its detail.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/A64A5B2C-DA00-48F0-9F50-09167FBBC27F" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/34258583-88F0-4844-9DB4-A99E3B14C462" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>8. Webster New International Dictionary, 2007.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/1EBD7062-C802-4BC2-9D89-F4D72A933101" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>9 .Music of the World, 2009. and Complete Book of Ballets, 2009.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/218BF37A-F564-40D1-BA36-7677FF84BD97" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>10. Full Set of Funk</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.designswan.com/img/DBE3F88C-D276-4356-8281-C81430CD5FF8" alt="amazing Sculptural Book Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.designswan.com/archives/amazing-sculptural-book-art.html"><P>For more incredible <STRONG>Sculptural Book Art</STRONG>, click here to visit <A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briandettmer/">author’s website</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briandettmer/" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briandettmer/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.flickr.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briandettmer/"><DIV id="sv_body_3527574423" class="StreamView">
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			</p> Brian Dettmer
Key Monuments #3,
2009, 
Altered Book,
10-1/4" x 11" x
6"
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