Art Made From Books : Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed / Laura Heyenga, Brian Dettmer, introduction by Alyson Kuhn

Identifier:REF.BB.1918

Dimensions:176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Copyright dates:2013

contributor: Laura Heyenga, Bryan Dettmer

Subjects: Altered books, Artists' books., collected works

Description:The 27 visual artists whose portfolios comprise this exciting collection each work with printed books as their medium. They carve, paint, and repurpose pulp to striking effect, building startling secondary evocations from their material's primary narratives. Amid the rush toward e-books, this volume amounts to a wild celebration of the printed, illustrated, and bound form.

Contents: Preface / by Brian Dettmer -- Introduction by Alyson Kuhn -- Artists. James Allen, Thomas Allen, Noriko Ambe, Anonymous, Cara Barer, Doug Beube, Su Blackwell, Jennifer Collier, Brian Dettmer, Arian Dylan, Yvette Hawkins, Nicholas Jones, Jennifer Khoshbin, Lisa Kokin, Guy Laramee, Pablo Lehmann, Jeremy May, Pamela Paulsrud, Susan Porteous, Alex Queral, Jacqueline Rush Lee, Georgia Russell, Mike Stilkey, Kylie Stillman, Julia Strand, Robert The, Vita Wells -- Artist bios -- Image credits.