Tag: books
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Artist Creates Life-Sized Replica of Parthenon Using 100,000 Banned Books
Argentine artist Marta Minujín has created a life-sized replica of the Parthenon using 100,000 banned books from around the world. The massive book art installation is a replica of the famous Greek temple where democracy was born. However, the location of the ambitious project is more than just a symbolic statement – its located on…
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Photographer Captures Images of the Most Beautiful Libraries Around the World
Architectural beauty often pops up in the most unexpected and often overlooked locations. So, next time you’re loaning a novel, take a moment to look around — you might just spot something magnificent. Reinhard Görner is a German photographer who, for the last 10 years, has been capturing the magnificence of libraries across the globe, making…
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100’s of Museums Provide Adult Coloring-In Books to Download FOR FREE
Interestingly, one of the biggest adult art movements of 2017 was the coloring in book craze. Whether it be re-living our youth, finding a different way to relax, or simply passing the time, book stores sold more ‘adult’ coloring in books in 2017 than all of the previous 10 years combined. The Color Our Collections…
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Can A Single Book Disrupt the Foundation of a Brick Wall?
How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle by Franz Kafka), Mendez Blake constructed a single wall of bricks—75 feet long, 13 feet high—without mortar. Each brick was placed uniformly and intentionally, as with any wall, but Blake also included an…
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Book pages folded into stunning sculptures by Yuto Yamaguchi
Paper sculptor extraordinaire Yuto Yamaguchi has taken the art to a whole new level by transforming hardcover books into sculptures by simply folding their pages. Without using scissors, he crafts the bold designs by intricately creasing each page so that together, they appear as one cohesive form. Yamaguchi’s excellent craftsmanship produces smooth curves and sharp lines, making…
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Amazing Fairytale Book Covers By Latvian Artist
If you’re a book nerd and an office stationery nerd like us, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE these elaborate book covers by Latvian designer and artist, Aniko Kolesnikova. Aniko works under the name Mandarin Duck and you can purchase her amazing covers on her Etsy store. What is your favorite book cover? And don’t forget, if…
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A New Miniature Book Showing Life’s Lil Pleasures By Evan Lorenzen
When we last saw Colorado-based artist Evan Lorenzen, he had just released his miniature book “THE MINI BOOK OF MAJOR EVENTS“. His latest book continues the trend of not being your average book – it’s no larger than one inch tall and features drawings smaller than your thumbnail – and is called “Life’s Lil Pleasures”. As…
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A 1979 Ford Falcon Converted into a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books
In celebration of World Book Day (last week) 7UP commissioned Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff to construct one of his famous book tanks. In this case he began with a stripped down 1979 Ford Falcon which he used to build a new roving library on wheels with an exterior framework capable of carrying 900 free books. Lemesoff refers to his…
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A 16th Century Book That Can Be Read Six Different Ways
Sure, the Amazon Kindle might have dynamic font adjustments, and it can hold thousands of books, but can it do this? Printed in the late 16th century this small book from the National Library of Sweden is an example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding, where six books are conjoined into a single publication but can be read individually with the…
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Secret Paintings in 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa
Colleen Theisen, who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, recently shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a…