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Book art

• Burning the Encyclopedia

  If you couldn’t get rid of your old print encyclopedia any other way, would you burn it? That’s what author and philosopher Julian Baggini did recently in a field in… Read more »

• “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” aims to reassemble books lost in Baghdad

  A car bomb set off on March 5, 2007 in Iraq killed thirty, wounded 100, and hit the center for bookselling and cultural exchange in Baghdad. This was a major… Read more »

• Dullness combined with dullness

  The pages of A Course in Correct Cataloguing, or Notes to the Neophyte and A Second Course in Correct Cataloguing, two humorous glossaries written by legendary bookseller David Magee, make… Read more »

• Awesome shredded book art installations

  Despite the flak that Lauren Conrad received for cutting up old books for an art project, I still think that art created from deconstructed books is a really cool idea… Read more »

• Somewhere in France, the Anglomaniacs meet the Germans: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project

  Nina Katchadourian is an artist who photographs the covers or spines of certain books next to each other, so that the titles form a connected series. Such as: Katchadourian has… Read more »

• Literaturwurst: not the worst of literature

  There are lots of ways to express one’s dislike of a book, but if you’re Dieter Roth, German-Swiss artist whose wide and varied output included many works incorporating food, giving… 3 / Read more »

• Beautiful art carved out of books

  Bibliophiles might find it painful to see books cut apart and rendered unreadable, but what if it’s for the sake of art? Design blog Colossal has posted a series of photos… 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 »