[tabs slidertype=“top tabs” auto=“yes”] [tabcontainer] [tabtext]ABAD[/tabtext] [/tabcontainer] [tabcontent] [tab]A Book About Death[/tab] [/tabcontent] [/tabs]Matthew Rose sends this message on Facebook for the ongoing project A Book About Death. With this particular Elegant Themes theme, you need to click on the blog post title to read more. For now, as part of the learning curve, I will add the WP more link, just for the time being.
Tag Archives: Altered books
Artist’s Books
Have completed 12 artist’s books. My goal is to keep making them until I run out of materials — in other words — forever. The books thus far are created from:
Dante. a Geography/History textbook 1939. College trigonometry textbook. College mathematics textbook. 1964 McCall’s magazine. 1968 1001 Interior Design magazine.
In the early 1970s the artist’s book began to be recognized as a distinct genre, and with this recognition came the beginnings of critical appreciation of and debate on the subject.
I have to do more research. Since I live in a cultural vacuum, with input from internet and tv and magazines/books, it surprises when I discover my outsider art is coming indoors. Like the JAB.
Artist’s Books Made From Old Textbooks
Using a folding technique I picked up online (like a tramp during fleet week, the template screamed at me from across the dock), new books spring forth (not fall back) from the studio. Acquired a 1938 sixth grade geography book "The New World Past and Present" and after reading all about the South after the Civil War which wasn't at all civil, now was it?, ... read more
Adding a new gallery tonight
This is not just an altered book. Dragonwyck creates a mood, a moment in time... more on this particular piece will be revealed after the Oscars are over and when I have a brain again. And it is also not clearly available, although the gallery is loaded because the page is under the header image, the green graphic, and this must be corrected. You can see Dragonwyck Gallery by clicking here. ... read more
Altered Books Workshop
Ms. Brazelton's book was the first of what has now become an extensive Art Library.
Easy to read.
Inspirational.
Tools & Materials.
Basic Techniques.
Tips.
Collages, papers, books... and more.
This post serves as a template for further reviews and is the first time I've utilized the Book Reviews Plugin by Lee Penny. There are other books plugins which I will try later. ... read more