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Art books

• The People’s E-Book: A platform to create digital artists’ books

  In A Century of Artists’ Books, cultural critic Johanna Drucker observes: The artist’s book is the quintessential 20th century art form.  Artists’ books appear in every major movement in art… Read more »

• The first “simultaneous book” on display at MoMA

  If you visit the Museum of Modern Art before April 15, 2013, you’ll be able to see the Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 exhibition, which traces the development of abstraction through the… Read more »

• Canadian students asked to buy $180 art book with no pictures of art

  Canadian art students are in revolt after being asked to buy a very expensive art book that, due to a threatened copyright dispute, has blank spaces where the pictures should… 1 / Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco on America’s poor

  Below, The Guardian adapts panels from Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. According to the Guardian, “Together they explore the country’s ‘sacrifice zones’ — areas… Read more »

• Cityscapes made from old schoolbooks

  Looks like a trip to Paris is in order. We should all go, as in immediately, and geek out over Chinese artist Liu Wei’s cityscape sculptures. Look at these things.… Read more »

• Richard Prince makes another goddam phony

  If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is why, on a warm fall day last year, James Frey was standing in… 1 / Read more »

• Is this the future of the book club?

  Printed books are not dead. Not yet, not by a long shot. Even if 2015 comes and predictions hold that half of all books sold are eBooks, the other half… 2 / Read more »

• Hardcovers' second act….

  CBS News’s Mark Strassmann reports on Atlanta artist Brian Dettmer making sculptures out of old books. Slicing and dicing his way through hardcovers, Dettmer makes some very cool objects. Though… Read more »

• Learn how to do something crafty with your obsolete library of books

  (Via GalleyCat) Last Thursday, artist Lisa Occhipinti gave a class on how to turn books into art at Housing Works. The event promised that “Often using no more than a craft… Read more »

• Notes on design: A good yarn

  The quirky British publishing upstart Visual Editions have been making a lot of headlines over the past few months with their newest book, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. (And… 2 / Read more »