Books in art help tell the story July 2, 2014 – Posted in: Art, bookbinding, Books and Art, Content, Painting

‘Madame de Pompadour’ by Francois Boucher, 1756, As many of you who regularly check in with Book Patrol know, the representation of the book in art is one of the cornerstones of our foundation. Over at the British Library’s Collection Care blog Christina Duffy looks at the value of books depicted in art as it relates to the history of bookbinding. Fueled by her week of studying European Bookbinding (1450-1820) at the London Rare Books School Duffy shows us how…

Cardboard bound February 10, 2014 – Posted in: book arts, bookbinding

“The streets are no longer paved with gold. Pizza boxes and delivery boxes from a well river in South America, crunch underfoot like beige snow” – London-based book artist Mark Cockram. He calls them Rubbish Books, and they are bound from the pulp of abandoned cardboard boxes that litter the streets of his neighborhood. And why turn cardboard into paper? Cockram says because it is “simple stuff.” he immerses the side of a packing box in a vat…

Paper and The Pleasure of Pattern May 5, 2013 – Posted in: bookbinding, Paper

Claudia Cohen is one of the better bookbinders around. She has done work for the likes of the Houghton Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, Pennyroyal Press, Heavenly Monkey Press and the Whitney Museum among others. She is currently in the midst of a stunning multi-book collaboration with noted author Barbara Hodgson.Cohen also collects paper. Really cool decorated paper from all across the globe. Cohen then uses them to create…

Bound by Tuttle: The Amazing Bindings of Richard Tuttle May 2, 2013 – Posted in: book arts, bookbinding, Books and Art

The Raven 10” x 12” One of Richard Tuttle’s latest magical bindings is aptly called “The Raven.” For it Tuttle takes a copy of the 1995 Folio Society edition of Poe’s classic poem and binds it in some black goat leather boards. The boards and endpapers are then “feathered” to give binding the impression of flight. The book is able to stand alone for display. Here is a sampling of some of his other recent…