The Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language exhibit at MoMA "brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom"One of the cooler components of the exhibit is Dial-a-Poem; four rotary phones on display that when picked up will treat you to an original recording of a poet reading one of their works. And what if you can't make it to New York in the next few months? You can still partake by calling the local...
Paper Moments
Inspiration 1 by Anna DorosenkoTo celebrate their 20th anniversary, The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) launched Paper Moments, a competition that invited people to submit paper-themed photos. About the contest: Throughout times, paper has been all around us, working for us, delivering to us and making our lives easier. It is so much a part of our daily lives that we take it for granted and rarely stop to think about it. Yet it communicates symbols, engages our senses, brings cleanliness, comfort and safety and accompanies our every moment. Capture one of these moments and you might win one of...
Book People: Giuseppe Arcimboldo is channeled again
The Librarian (Wolfgang Lazius) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ca. 1562. Oil on canvas. 97 x 71 cm (38 3/16 x 28 in.)Last summer we did a post entitled, Evolution of a Painted Librarian: Peter Sis channels Giuseppe Arcimbold, showing how one of the illustrations in Sis's 1994 book The Three Golden Keys closely resembled the famous painted librarian of Arcimbold.Now we welcome Andre Martins de Barros into the Arcimboldo circle. Here are two of his works; The Philospher and The Bookseller. The philosopherThe bookseller
A Google Pictionary
Sure, we're close to the end of the printed dictionary, for it is perhaps the ultimate printed matter for digital replacement. Now what if we replace the words with images? Welcome to Google book a project by Ben West & Felix Heyes. In Google book, West and Hayes provide a visual rendering of the Google-first mentality that currently permeates and dominates our culture's search for information. Here's what they did :They took the 21,000 words that were in the dictionary they chose and entered each word into Google. The first image that was returned became the visual equivalent.The resulting PDF was...
Books on Books: The Painted Version
Talk about a book on books!Can anyone help identify the piece? There are some mentions that it is by John Martin and is called "Hombre Leyendo en una Librería" (Man reading in a library) but I have been unable to confirm.UPDATE:Case resolved -Image is by John Martin, Man reading in a library - Thanks CharlesCover illustration for the 1993 French Edition of Gerard Bessette's Le libraire . Originally published in 1960 (translated as Not for Every Eye)The book painting brings to mind the work of Mike Stilkey whose latest commission was this piece for the flagship store of Hong Kong...