MetaFilter posts tagged with bookart

Hey the new phone book's here!

readery — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:54:38 -0800

The Sculpture of Alex Qurel Phonebooks as art and other re-uses of printed material. Nicholas Galanin Brian Dettmer Kylie Stillman Nicholas Jones If you can get over the taboo of book defacement, revel in the creative re-use. How to: The Altered Book Project And previously from orange swan

19th century Romantic poem with illustrated books

stbalbach — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:58:25 -0800

`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. My favorites from the "online" link (Flip Book to view): *The Eve of St. Agnes (1900) calligraphy by Ralph Fletcher Seymour - pseudo-medieval manuscript w/ intro by Edmund Gosse *The Eve of St. Agnes (1885) illus. by Edmund Garrett

Fairy Tale Geometry

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:34:28 -0800

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."

The Book Art of Richard Minsky

Tacodog — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:37:39 -0800

The Book Art of Richard Minsky found by helcat who shared it in #mefi.