Rabbit, Run by John Updike. Artist: WebmockerThe folks at the Lawrence Public Library are celebrating Banned Books Week by creating a set of trading cards. From the almost 50 illustrations submitted by local artists of all ages they chose 7 to include, one for each day of the week.Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Artist: Kent SmithThe two above made the final cut while the two below didn't. You can see all the submissions hereAnimal Farm by George Orwell. Artist: Anna TaylorA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Artist: Sophia Palmer
Book Gris: Cubism, Juan Gris and the Book
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
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...
The Big Books and Word Power of Solizick Meister
One doesn't have to dig too deep into the portfolio's of Solizick Meister to find the book love.Many of her surrealist paintings and digital illustrations are saturated in book and text imagery. The piece Keyhole (shown above) is one of several in a series that feature a book dwarfing the reader. The power lies in the book. And one sees in her digital illustrations a different kind of power; a word power. In both Me and Myself and Learning (pictured at top) words literally consume the subject and seem to offer a much more freeing experience. and of course there...
Blinded by books: The paintings of Rick Beerhorst
into her book , 8x19 inches, oil on board,Books play a major role in the work of Rick Beerhorst. In this the first of a two-part post on his book work, we focus on his paintings of girls in the act of reading. His work is steeped in the folk art, pop-surrealism style with a hint of Magritte Braided VisionAre the girls blinded by books or so immersed in their reading that they are essentially cut off from the temporal world; literally wrapped up in their imaginations.HummingbirdIs the braided blindfold a restraint or a necessity? Is the hummingbird helping the...