cut and sculpted paper art by various artists

Turning Text Into Art. Intricately Altered Books by Brian Dettmer.

Altered Books by Brian Dettmer
above: Brian Dettmer, Webster Withdrawn, 2010

Taking medical texts, encylopedias, dictionaries, historical texts and other reference tomes, artist Brian Dettmer creates intricate sculptures. Carving up covers, interior pages, images and words to create layers and assembling the books with great dimensionality, his works create narratives that demand the viewer’s investigation. (more…)

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Books and Bibles that go Bang Bang! Bookguns by artist Robert The.

Bookguns by artist Robert The

Artist Robert The has been turning the printed word into facsimiles of weapons since 1995. His choice of books have purposefully ironic titles or subject matter when handcarved into the shape of handguns. (more…)

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