Project #3 includes looking at artists books, ideas of books, book arts and the structure of a book as an object. We also have to look at 5 artists that interest me.
Olafur Eliasson - 5th PHOTO: Born in Copenhagen in 1967. Along with creating laser cut designs in books Eliasson also created digital effects of images and many sculptures. His work is very interesting and it keeps you looking at the piece.
Brian Dettmer - 4th PHOTO: Very interesting on how he cuts into his books to make his designs. His designs are very intricately designed and not all of his pieces are of books. I noticed that one of his pieces was a scull, but most of them are of old dictionaries. Very cool artist!
Georgia Russell - 3rd PHOTO: Almost all of her pieces of art have a book involved that is slashed and gashed with strands of papers hanging off the books. She also paints parts of the book to change up her designs. She is also scottish who not only slashes books but also photographs, maps and newspapers. I wish to know what tools she uses to do this.
Thomas Allen - 2nd PHOTO: Although he isn't a book artist he does photograph books. In his pieces he isn't just creating one piece of art, photography but he is also creating another kind of art, book art. He cuts figures out of paper back books and folds them to create dioramas.
Casey Curran - 1st PHOTO: Crazy cool book artist. Along with Dettmer, Curran also slices into books that he buys a book stores. He uses a lot of different methods in his designs. If you look at his works you notice that he uses circles in every one of his works.
