The Book Juan Gris (1887-1927) was one of the most famous Cubist painters. His Portrait of Picasso, painted in 1912, is considered one of the important early Cubist paintings that was not painted by Picasso. When he died at the age of 40 he left behind over 200 works, at least a dozen of which feature book imagery.Here is part one: Book, Pipe and Glasses Bowl, Book and SpoonCompotier, Carafe and Open Book Fruit and Book Fruit Bowl, Book and Newspaper
The LunchBook
Snack on this: An international recipe book with "paper plate" pages to eat on. LunchBook is designed by Italian design team Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini for the Expo Milano 2015 world exposition dedicated to food, sustainability and nutrition. This culinary world book contains international recipes encouraging the visitor to use its pages as plates and taste the many dishes from the Expo Milano stands. Once a page is used it can be easily removed. The pages have been coated with a waterproof biopolymer film and are 100% recyclable and compostable. An added feature is having each paper plate's border based upon the traditional...
Books for Posing
Prior to the emergence and popularity of image libraries and stock photo agencies, The Fairburn System of Visual References was considered the holy grail of visual reference material for artists of the day. Produced in 3 volume sets of human figures, faces and heads, figures and hands, they were an indispensible resource for the art director and commercial artist who relied on the photo references to hand render people—usually with Magic Markers—for conceptual storyboards and ad campaigns. Just like rubber cement and presstype, the Fairburn System was considered an essential tool for "pitching" clients throughout the 1970s and 80s, and most every...
In the Stacks: National Library of Ireland
[paperback bargains] Dublin, 1969.Next stop for In the Stacks is the National Library of Ireland. Located in Dublin, Ireland's national library is home to the most comprehensive collection of Irish documentary material on the planet. Here is a little book-themed grouping from their Flickr offering. The Reading Room of Miss Sandes Soldiers Home in the Curragh Camp. Elise Sandes (1851-1934) from Tralee, Co Kerry founded this movement near army camps in Ireland, England and India. She was an evangelical missionary and her aim was to provide wholesome recreation for young soldiers to keep them away from pubs. Eason & Son Ltd.,...
aMAZEme: The Ultimate Book Labyrinth
The Craigslist ad by the Brazilian artists' Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo asked for volunteers to help build a maze of books for the London 2012 Festival, a 'Cultural Olympiad' being held during the Olympic games.The parameters were simple enough: "walls of up to 3 meters high will be built from 250,000 books to create a maze of more than 300 meters in length!"But mind you this not an ordinary book assemblage but "an art project that unites literature, performance, installation, image and cinema." whose conceptual design is attributed to Jorge Luis Borge's fingerprint! By participating in the installation, the audience...