Mar 6, 2011: Book surgeon

Undertoad · 03-06-2011, 07:25 PM

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Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.

Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.

"My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says.

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lupin..the..3rd · 03-06-2011, 07:33 PM

what a pretty way to destroy books. i suppose it's better than burning them.

monster · 03-06-2011, 08:04 PM

Cool. Book art/sculpture is popular here in Ann Arbor -there are even Rec and Ed classes you can take. Much more fun than simply recycling unwanted books.

But.... these photos just don't look "right" to me. the lighting/shadows seem wrong/artificial/shopped. Which would be weird because this is an established art form....

Griff · 03-06-2011, 08:11 PM

Good plan for those useless encyclopedias... except for the end of civilization thing...

footfootfoot · 03-06-2011, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

But.... these photos just don't look "right" to me. the lighting/shadows seem wrong/artificial/shopped. Which would be weird because this is an established art form....

They look pretty normally lit to me. They may have been extra sharpened or saturated, it's hard to say. They do have an extra sort of POP to them.

Clodfobble · 03-06-2011, 10:04 PM

Perhaps he coated the whole thing in some kind of polyurethane once he was done? I'm not certain the book would hold that lovely arched-out form on its own.

monster · 03-06-2011, 11:54 PM

Ii can't put my finger on it, but it's like the images don't match the backgrounds. I feel like there's that cropping-tell-tale black line around them, but why? you know, the one that tells you the foreground's been dropped onto a different background... except there's nothing incriminating/special in the background here, so that obviously isn't the case.....

Gravdigr · 03-07-2011, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by lupin..the..3rd

what a pretty way to destroy books. i suppose it's better than burning them.

No, no see, this way, we can burn books and art, at the same time.

onetrack · 03-09-2011, 06:50 AM

Where was this guy, when they were making Fahrenheit 451??

03-06-2011, 08:04 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Cool. Book art/sculpture is popular here in Ann Arbor -there are even Rec and Ed classes you can take. Much more fun than simply recycling unwanted books. But.... these photos just don't look "right" to me. the lighting/shadows seem wrong/artificial/shopped. Which would be weird because this is an established art form.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-06-2011, 08:11 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Good plan for those useless encyclopedias... except for the end of civilization thing... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-06-2011, 10:04 PM	#6
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Perhaps he coated the whole thing in some kind of polyurethane once he was done? I'm not certain the book would hold that lovely arched-out form on its own. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-06-2011, 11:54 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Ii can't put my finger on it, but it's like the images don't match the backgrounds. I feel like there's that cropping-tell-tale black line around them, but why? you know, the one that tells you the foreground's been dropped onto a different background... except there's nothing incriminating/special in the background here, so that obviously isn't the case..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-09-2011, 06:50 AM	#9
onetrack Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Western Australia Posts: 99	Where was this guy, when they were making Fahrenheit 451?? __________________ Illiterate??? - Not a problem! Write today for more information!! ....

03-06-2011, 07:33 PM	#2
lupin..the..3rd Belt Conveyor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Meijersville Posts: 68	what a pretty way to destroy books. i suppose it's better than burning them.

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