Book Boxes: Vintage-Style Dollhouses Made of Hollowed-Out Tomes
If you’ve ever wished you could shrink yourself to live inside a book, these incredibly charming miniature houses made of hollowed-out books will only encourage further fantasizing. ...
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Defiant Democracy: Parthenon Replica Made of 100,000 Banned Books
Standing on the site where Nazis burned 2,000 books by Jewish and Marxist writers, this Parthenon is not made of marble, but of 100,000 books that have been or remain banned by various ...
Mind Mining: Subterranean Library Descends Into Darkness
A fragile layer of glass is all that prevents you from falling, Alice-in-Wonderland-style, into a tunnel of books that seems to descend deep below the surface of the earth, its bottom shrouded in ...
Stories Jump Out of the Pages with 3D Book Sculptures
Fiction favorites, from Gone with the Wind to Treasure Island, literally leap off the pages in three dimensions in Jodi Harvey-Brown's imaginative book paper sculptures. Harvey-Brown illustrates ...
Topographic Tomes: More Carved Books by Guy Laramee
Sculptor Guy Laramee looks at the edges of paper bound in a book and sees infinite possibilities: hills, valleys, volcanoes and alien rock formations. The artist is known for carving books into ...
Gripping Book Art: 31 Sculptures Worth Reading About
As society shifts into the digital age, a lot of paper books are being left behind. Some courageous and green artists are fighting the tide by bringing these books back into their own as gorgeous ...
Incarnate: Skull Carved from Outdated Computer Books
Artist Maskull Lasserre specializes in transforming ordinary objects into amazingly intricate, often somewhat unsettling works of art. His most recent work, 'Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty ...
Literary Landscapes: Carved Books by Guy Laramee
From the pages of books spring mountain ranges, rocky islands in the sea and sculptures hidden in caves - not in your imagination, in this case, but literally - in three dimensions. Artist Guy ...
Art That Speaks Volumes: 12 More Book Artists
Why should out-of-date, unwanted books molder away in the dark corners of libraries, or – far worse – in a landfill? Artists working with books, whether they make it their sole chosen medium ...
Spiraling Tower of Babel Made of Books in Buenos Aires
Seven stories tall, this Tower of Babel is no long-lost artifact from biblical times but rather an artistic tribute to the city of Buenos Aires' new designation as 'World Book Capital 2011'. The ...
