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What started out as a pastime soon turned into a hobby that turned into a passion until it eventually became a necessity. Reading is a need so beautiful that I feel I must write about it every day.

Thursday 10 May 2012

Stunning Book Art!

It kills me to see books and papers turned and twisted mecilessly but I find a bit of consolation in the fact that these are old newspapers and books turned into wonderful pieces of art. Just goes to show the uselfullness of book!

                                                             A tower of books 
                The Argentinian artist Marta Minujin has built a tower of 30,000 books.
    
 The tower was built to celebrate Buenos Aires' nomination for World Book Capital 2011.

 "Paper Elegies"
 Nick Georgiou uses old books to make these colorful artworks




                                                    
                                           

                                                        Carved book landscapes


Artist Guy Laramee says about his work: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.




Cascades of books
  Artist Alicia martin transformed thousands of unused books into columns that pour out of windows of historical buildings in Madrid into the streets.


                                       These over sized sculptures are definitely one of a kind.




 


Sources: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2OceD5/:pZK9eOfY:Tj2GO3yC/www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/carved-book-landscapes-by-guy-laramee/
http://www.walltowatch.com/view/2000

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  1. What happens to the tower when it rains?
    I loved the carved landscapes and the book columns poring out out he windows . Brilliant that is.

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