Art Made From Books: A “Compelling Art Form” on the Rise September 3, 2013 – Posted in: Art, book arts, Books and Art, Uncategorized

Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed. Edited by Laura Heyenga • Preface by Brian Dettmer • Introduction by Alyson Kuhn The latest compilation on the blossoming genre of art made from books comes to us from Chronicle Books. Over 25 artists are featured in this well produced book featuring over 200 photos and a nifty looking exposed sewn spine. detail of a piece left by Anonymous From Doug Beube, an early artist to…

Reading and writing with Ben Giles August 5, 2013 – Posted in: Art, Books and Art, Uncategorized

Welcome to the world of UK artist Ben Giles. A world where reading and writing explode into a bountiful bouquet of color and life. Whether it is his painted frames, collages or his book cover work the power of the book shines through. Collage Anatomy Book Book Covers More Ben Giles: Cargo Collective Flickr

Dieter Roth and the “Stinky” Artist’s Book July 9, 2013 – Posted in: Art, Books and Art, Exhibits

Dieter Roth. Literature Sausage (Literaturwurst). 1969, published 1961–70 “What’s really incredible about Roth is the way he started to totally reinvent what a book could be. When he began making books in the early 1950s he decided that, for him, a book didn’t need a binding or a sequence or a text or even an image.” – Sarah Suzuki MoMA curator How about cheese, chocolate and bannanas Between 1961 and 1970 Roth created about fifty “literature sausages.”…

remembering futurism June 5, 2013 – Posted in: Art, Comics / Cartoons

From Grant Snider of Incidental Comics fame comes a new series for Medium called “Who Needs Art?” First up, remembering futurism.Previously on Book Patrol:Day Jobs of the PoetsPerformance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers and more from Grant Snider

Kirsty Mitchell’s ‘Wonderland’ May 7, 2013 – Posted in: Art, Books and Art, Photography

‘Wonderland’ began in 2009 as a series of works dedicated to the memory of her mother, an English teacher “who spent over thirty years inspiring generations of children.” While grieving the loss of her mom Mitchell took to “creating an unexplained storybook without words, dedicated to her, that would echo the fragments of the fairytales she read to me constantly as a child.” Now four years later the storybook is nearing completion and it is filled with 75…

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