For the third installment of In the Stacks we visit the Museum of the City of New York which recently released 50,000 digital images from their outstanding collection.What is becoming increasingly clear in the early stages of this new series is that the plethora of material available at many of these digital destinations warrant more than one trip. Rather than overcrowd the initial posts Book Patrol will return, in due time, to select archives to bring you more book goodness.So, here on the the first visit to the Museum of the City of New York, we focus on the private...
Books, Blocks and Bullets
On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete RealityFrom review in the Irish Times on An ominous note is even more clearly sounded in a 2008 sculpture, On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete Reality. Books and journals about Brazilian architecture and culture are interspersed with polished concrete blocks in stacks like tower blocks. Walk around to the rear of the stacks, look closely and you see that the blocks are studded with embedded bullets: a subtle but very effective image. Books, blocks and bullets are presented as a continuum. Perhaps Garaicoa is alluding...
Words as Spiritual Armor: The Art of Lesley Dill
Word Messengers (A Single Screw of Flesh is All That Pins the Soul), 2006, organza, ribbon, silk, glueThe current exhibit at The Columbia Museum of Art features the work of the contemporary American artist Lesley Dill.The show, I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill, consists of 34 pieces and is "the first retrospective exhibition of the artist of this scale."A Word Made Flesh...Throat, 1994, photolithograph, mixed intaglio, thread, with text by Emily DickinsonFrom the press release:Her pieces give visual form to poetic texts by Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Franz Kafka and others. For Dill, words are her ‘spiritual armor’ and she freely...
A McDonalds Book Sandwich
This ad campaign was created for McDonalds in Hungary by the advertising agency DDB in Budapest and "i'm lovin' it"Thanks to Every Book Its Reader for the lead
Happy Holidays!
via Real SimpleBook Patrol would like to thank everyone for their support and readership over the past year and we wish everyone a happy holiday season..... Photo by Aga Inésand only the best in the coming year!You can see a few more examples of xmas book trees at Booklicious