book use

interest in the use of printed books in contemporary culture.....as creative , decorative, and functional objects.

lisaocchipinti:

[just completed]

Book Stack Sculpture A Little Bit of Blue

~books, beeswax, oil pigment, twine, varnish

(via bookron)

alizarin—crimson:

Casseroles - Montréal, 24 Mai 2012

Manifestation à Montréal contre la hausse des frais de scolarité et la loi 78.
Les gens se retrouvent à des coins de rues pour faire le plus de bruit possible à l’aide de casseroles.


jeremiebattaglia.com

mianoti:

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. […] *

(via teachingliteracy)