Pierrot with Book ca. 1924Here is the second installment featuring the representation of books in the work of noted Cubist painter Juan Gris.Enjoy!The Open BookThe Book of MusicBook and GuitarStill Life with Guitar, book and newspaperStill Life with Book, 1913Previously on book patrol:Book Gris: Cubism, Juan Gris and the Book
Be mean with Shakespeare: The Shakespeare insult kit
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Bookselling in Drag
The Art of Library Date Stamps
For Italian artist Frederico Pietrella, time is a framework that can be measured in the time it takes to create a work of art. And one of the mediums he uses to illustrate the concept of time is a library date stamp. As his large-scale images take a considerable amount of time to produce, he will change the stamp to reflect the current date, adding texture to illustrate his everyday images in a complex, pointillistic manner. Each image can take him up to two months to complete, and they often sell for up to €20,000 (or $26.000).Pietrella, who now makes...
Letters for the birds
Check out these typographic bird houses by Indian industrial designer Nishant Jethi. The series is titled Living Typography and features the complete alphabet in hollowed out 3D letters.The bird houses also double as nameplates and/or house numbers!Now how cool is that.