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 "Arta nu este un lucru este o cale "Elbert Hubbard

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Study the inner workings of a plot and characterization in this incredibly open and visual way: books dissected and enhanced by mixed media - designed by Brian Dettmer.




Some call it "Book Autopsies"; I'd call it "hack writing, with 3D illustrations". The anatomical "content" looks especially interesting:



Other work from Brian Dettmer includes some kind of fossil formations, with books revealed in them:



Scalpel Art has to be even more precise... But the book itself is basically trashed. Georgia Russell is responsible for this irresistible "carnage":



It feels like these books have to be contained, otherwise they would explode in streams of wild tangle all over the room:



Other really awesome book art: from Su Blackwell -



"The Book of Nails" by Daniel Essig:




(work by Seann Gray-Eskne, image via)

First edition Emerson (colorful, inspiring poetry) -


(image credit: Peggy Dembicer)


Profile of a really well-read individual

Aaron Packer in his gallery shows this wonderful book sculpture:



Mike Stilkey has been featured before on our site... his whimsical book figures (maybe pulp fiction heroes?) are great addition to someone's collection or library:



But even he gets overwhelmed sometimes by the sheer amount of used books:

 Mike Stilkey

https://www.mikestilkey.com/#gallery

https://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/02/creative-hand-art-photography/

Apparently some people have to much free time on their ‘hands’ and to a lesser extent on their ‘feet’. These are some of the coolest imaginary art photographs of painted hands and the hand with the pen took me some time to actually realise the creativity. Other variations of hand art can be found at an earlier post ‘Cool Hand Art Paintings‘.

21 more pics of creative hand art photography after the jump.

Source: Repubblica