The Sculpture of Alex Qurel Phonebooks as art and other re-uses of printed material. [more inside]
posted by readery on Jul 29, 2009 - 4 comments

`The Eve of St. Agnes` (1819) is a poem based on a Medieval folktale by Romanticist John Keats. One of Keats most beloved poems, in the 19th and early 20th centuries it became a popular source of inspiration with at least 6 well-known painters such as William Holman Hunt and Arthur Hughes. There were also many beautifully illustrated books produced during this period, some of which are online. [more inside]
posted by stbalbach on Aug 11, 2008 - 8 comments

Among the works exhibited at the Whitney Museum's Buckminster Fuller exhibit is his Tetrascroll, a fairy tale based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears written for his daughter. Tetrascroll, as you might imagine from the name, is not an ordinary book, but a musing on life and geometry in the form of "a booklike artifact of twenty-six pages, each a thirty-six-inch equilateral triangle."
posted by grapefruitmoon on Aug 3, 2008 - 13 comments

The Book Art of Richard Minsky found by helcat who shared it in #mefi.
posted by Tacodog on Aug 3, 2004 - 3 comments