The Assemblagist

[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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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