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‘Book Surgeon’ Uses Surgical Tools To Make Incredible Book Sculptures
Brian Dettmer, a New York-based artist known as the Book Surgeon, uses tweezers, knives, scalpels, and other surgical tools to dissect and carve old books into intricate and beautiful sculptures.
Dettmer’s paper art has a sort of old-school touch to it because he uses vintage books – maps, encyclopedias, textbooks, manuals, and any other sort of literature that he can turn into an interesting work of art.
Although his creative process does end up destroying (or adding to, depending on how you look at it) someone else’s unique artwork, Dettmer has a different take on it; “My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed sculpture art pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.”
More info: briandettmer.com | Flickr (h/t: mymodernmet)
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Carl Robertson 11 months ago
This speaks volumes (even if it did take me a decade to see it).
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KristinPedemonti 11 years ago
Amazing altered ART. As a former Librarian, I don't it's travesty; many old books end up in landfills or on shelves in developing world.
KristinPedemonti 11 years ago
Amazing transformations. It is OK to alter books into art; chances are many of these would've ended up in a landfill, better as ART!
SabineBrosche 10 years ago
He is definitely a book surgeon. I wonder how long one piece takes? I work with old books because I believe in recycling already existing materials.
the companion 11 years ago
O MAH GOODNESS THAT IS SO COOL! I would get super frustrated ;) lol
KwantumLee 11 years ago
wtf. I clicked for pics of Priscilla the mini pig but I get pics of destroyed books? I am disappoint.
Roy Mathiew 11 years ago
you have an altar of books that you kowtow to every day? :)))
Load More Replies... Carl Robertson 11 months ago
This speaks volumes (even if it did take me a decade to see it).
Load More Replies... KristinPedemonti 11 years ago
Amazing altered ART. As a former Librarian, I don't it's travesty; many old books end up in landfills or on shelves in developing world.
KristinPedemonti 11 years ago
Amazing transformations. It is OK to alter books into art; chances are many of these would've ended up in a landfill, better as ART!
SabineBrosche 10 years ago
He is definitely a book surgeon. I wonder how long one piece takes? I work with old books because I believe in recycling already existing materials.
the companion 11 years ago
O MAH GOODNESS THAT IS SO COOL! I would get super frustrated ;) lol
KwantumLee 11 years ago
wtf. I clicked for pics of Priscilla the mini pig but I get pics of destroyed books? I am disappoint.
Roy Mathiew 11 years ago
you have an altar of books that you kowtow to every day? :)))
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