Anselm Kiefer and the Book

Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Lead, steel, glass, copper wire and mixed organic media, approx. 460 × 884 × 180 cm.In honor of the exhibit Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Book Patrol will feature one of Kiefer's book related works until the exhibit ends at the end of January.Here is our second installment: Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89The work consists of 200 lead books (each weighing 300 kilos or a little over 600 pounds) arranged on two steel book shelves which are leaned against each other, but...

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Bookseller Resisters League: Book Stalls Demolished – Booksellers Resist!

Due to the changing landscape in the book world many booksellers have closed up shop recently but this story tops them all. Over 100 bookstalls were demolished in one fell swoop in the Koti area of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The government has built new stalls for the booksellers elsewhere and when the November 4 deadline to move came and went the demolition team showed up with many book stall owners still entrenched in their stalls"The Koti book stalls besides being a landmark are popular among the students for availability of all kinds of secondhand booksPolice resorted to lathi-charge...

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In the Gallery: Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibit

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is hosting an amazing exhibit of the work of the contemporary Japanese artist Shinsuke MinegishiIt will feature a variety of Minegishi's work including wood engravings for limited edition books; prints in which he employs both lithograph and wood engraving techniques; and simple wood engravings. Minegishi is a Japanese printmaker and wood engraver living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1970 and moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1998, and has been has...

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Good Night Zzzzzzzz Shops

It is official - Amazon has finally pulled the plug on zshops. After years of treating it like a bastard child who they wouldn't let out of the house or better yet let anyone visit the house they finally pulled the plugZ shops is where all the great books, ephemera and related material that was produced in the pre- ISBN era lived. Mind you, the ISBN system of identification was created in 1967 by David Whitaker and Emery Koltay so pretty much all original material published before 1967 was relegated to one's Z shop or better yet Book Siberia.It doesn't...

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